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Adverbial causal clauses as relative clauses [PDF]

Isogloss
This paper investigates to what extent adverbial causal clauses and relative clauses can be reduced as one and the same phenomenon. Whereas causal clauses have always posed a challenge for a unified account of relativization and adverbial subordination ...
Emanuela Sanfelici, Sira Rodeghiero
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On the oppositions that underlie the distinctions displayed by Russian causal clauses

Linguistics, 2022
This article studies Russian causal clauses employing formal contrasts that causal clauses manifest crosslinguistically. I explore two approaches that have been proposed to account for such contrasts: the coordination-subordination approach and the ...
Pekelis Olga
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Causal clauses and information structure of the sentence

Gragoatá, 2018
This paper investigates Brazilian Portuguese causal clauses introduced by porque. The objective is to show that, to obtain an adequate analysis of these clauses, the information structure of the sentence must be considered.
Patrícia Rodrigues
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On adverbial clauses in spoken Lithuanian

Lietuvių Kalba, 2020
The aim of the paper is to investigate adverbial clauses of time, cause, condition and concession in spontaneous private communication. The study explores semantic relations between the main and subordinate clauses, grammatical features and predominant ...
Erika Jasionytė-Mikučionienė
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Interference of Implicit Causality in Relative Clause Processing. [PDF]

Open Mind (Camb)
Abstract Differences in the processing of subject and object relative clauses have been explained by a combination of syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic factors, such as a general subject advantage based on syntactic constraints, effects of animacy, and the discourse status of relative clause internal subjects.
Pozniak C, Hemforth B.
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The Internal Structure of Causal Subordinators and the Attachment Site of Causal Clauses in the History of Italian

Languages
This paper investigates the syntax and diachrony of Italian causal clauses introduced by perché, siccome, and poiché. Although often treated as near-synonyms in Contemporary Italian, these subordinators differ systematically in their syntactic ...
Jacopo Garzonio, Emanuela Sanfelici
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THE BULGARIAN PAST FUTURE PERFECT AND ITS SLOVENE EQUIVALENTS: A CONTRASTIVE PERSPECTIVE [PDF]

Езиков свят, 2023
The article identifies and analyses Slovene contrastive (linguistic-systemic) equivalents of the Bulgarian future perfect tense, an infrequently used verb form in contemporary Bulgarian, indicating an action/event posterior with regard to a past time ...
Robert Grošelj
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Semantic Classification of Conditional Construction in Persian Language [PDF]

̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2020
Conditional constructions consist of two clauses. The existence or non-existence of a causal relationship between these two clauses causes the conditional construction to be divided into two groups: consequential and non- consequential conditionals.
Azadeh Mirzaei
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Utilizing Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network to Extract Emotion-Cause Pairs Effectively [PDF]

Jisuanji kexue, 2023
As an emerging task in text sentiment analysis,the automatic extraction of emotion-cause pairs aims to identify emotion expression from the raw texts without any annotation in the unit of clauses,and identify the causes for the corresponding emotions to ...
PU Jinyao, BU Lingmei, LU Yongmei, YE Ziming, CHEN Li, YU Zhonghua
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Shifters as sentence operators [PDF]

Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2017
The author presents the thesis that complementary clauses and relative clauses are de facto noun phrases founded on the shifter-tandems of the type that, which..., that, who... Mutatis mutandis, constructions constituted with causal conjunctions
Topolińska Zuzanna V.
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