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Adverbial causal clauses as relative clauses [PDF]

open access: yesIsogloss
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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A four-module neural architecture for the automatic extraction and classification of causal relations in text [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Artificial Intelligence
This article presents a four-module system for the automatic extraction and classification of causal relationships from texts in the Kazakh language, based on the fine-tuning of the KazBERT transformer language model.
Roman Taberkhan   +12 more
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The Syntax of Causal Clauses in Taiwan Southern Min

open access: yesStudies in Chinese Linguistics
Causal clauses in Taiwan Southern Min (TSM) are an issue that has long been ignored. Based on data drawn from corpora and recordings, by means of a diagnostic based on locality effect (Pan and Paul 2018; Pan and Zhu 2023), we argue that in’ui ‘because ...
Wei Ting-Chi
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The Internal Structure of Causal Subordinators and the Attachment Site of Causal Clauses in the History of Italian

open access: yesLanguages
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 acquisition of German relative clauses: A case study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This paper investigates the development of relative clauses in the speech of one German-speaking child aged 2;0 to 5;0. The earliest relative clauses we found in the data occur in topicalization constructions that are only a little different from simple ...
Diessel, Holger   +2 more
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weil dies ist ^MEInungsbezogen. Über die verfestigte Verbzweitstellung in meinungs- und gefühlsbezogenen weil-Sätzen im gesprochenen Deutsch [PDF]

open access: yesActa Facultatis Philosophicae Universitatis Ostraviensis. Studia Germanistica, 2021
This paper explores utterances in the form of causal clauses introduced by the conjunction weil in conversational German. The focus of this research is the relationship between the position of the finite verb in the clause and the type of explanation or ...
Dario Marić
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Development of Clause Chaining in Korean

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
Korean is a language with the verb at the end of a clause/sentence. In chaining several clauses [each consisting of a subject and a verb] in a sentence, a conjunction (e.g., -ko “and then,” -ese “because, and so”) is suffixed to the verb of a non-final ...
Soonja Choi
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Adverbial clauses with -ig and the “until -puzzle” [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper is devoted to untangling some of the cross-linguistic puzzles that are associated with temporal adverbial clauses in general, and until-clauses in particular.
Ürögdi, Barbara, Barbara Ürögdi
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Verb-second word order after German weil ‘because’: Psycholinguistic theory from corpus-linguistic data

open access: yesGlossa, 2016
In present-day spoken German, subordinate clauses introduced by the connector weil ‘because’ occur with two orders of subject, finite verb, and object(s).
Gerard Kempen, Karin Harbusch
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Form and function: Optional complementizers reduce causal inferences

open access: yesGlossa, 2017
Many factors are known to influence the inference of the discourse coherence relationship between two sentences. Here, we examine the relationship between two conjoined embedded clauses in sentences like The professor noted that the student teacher did ...
Hannah Rohde, Joseph Tyler, Katy Carlson
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