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Adverbial causal clauses as relative clauses [PDF]
IsoglossThis 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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Semantics and Pragmatics, 2010 The paper reexamines the interpretations that quantifiers in "than"-clauses give rise to. It develops an analysis that combines an interval semantics for the "than"-clause with a standard semantics for the comparative operator.
Sigrid Beck
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An overview of relative clauses in Gavar
Afrika und ÜberseeThe goal of this paper is to give a typological overview of the main characteristics of restrictive relative clauses in Gavar. The analysis is based on 572 examples of relative clauses taken from a corpus of 59 interlinearised texts, elicited examples ...
Melanie Viljoen
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English comparatives as degree-phrase relative clauses
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 2017 It has been observed (e.g. Chomsky 1977) that English questions allow wh-movement of adjective phrases, but relative clauses do not, which is cited as a notable difference between two types of constructions that are otherwise very similar. However, I argue that relative clauses actually can arise from the whmovement of adjective phrases (which I here ...
Richard Thomas McCoy +1 more
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A comparative look at Chinese relative clauses
, 2022 The two possible positions of relative clauses (RCs) in Chinese (the pre-demonstrative one and the post-demonstrative, post-numeral and post-classifier one: – Demonstrative – Numeral – Classifier – – AP- Noun) have since Chao’s (1968) characterization of RC1 as “restrictive” and RC2 as “descriptive” (nonrestrictive) made Chinese RCs appear quite ...
Guglielmo Cinque
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The acquisition of German relative clauses: A case study [PDF]
, 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 +5 more
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A Comparative Study of Relative Clauses in Russian and Persian [PDF]
Critical Language and Literary studies, 2021 در پژوهش حاضر به بررسی و مقایسه بند های پیرو موصولی در جملات مرکب وابسته در زبان فارسی و روسی پرداخته ایم. بند موصولی همان صفت است ولیکن بر خلاف صفت به شکل جمله واره ای وابسته در جمله مرکب وابسته ظاهر می شود. در این مقاله به بررسی انواع بند های پیرو موصولی در زبان فارسی و مقایسه آن ها با بند های پیرو موصولی در زبان روسی، حروف ربط وابستگی در این دو زبان،
Ali Saeidi, Mahnush Eskandari
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The scope of nominal quantifiers in comparative clauses [PDF]
Semantics and Pragmatics, 2017 We identify a new scope puzzle for quantifiers in comparative clauses. In particular, we argue that nominal quantifiers take scope at a higher level in the degree clause than previously assumed. On the assumption that quantifier scope is clause-bounded, this entails that there must be more structure in the clause than standardly assumed.
Rick Nouwen, Jakub Dotlačil
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Phase-edge properties and complementizer omission
Isogloss, 2015 This paper deals with the diachrony of complementizer omission (C-omission) in some Italian clauses. C-omission is restricted to clauses with [-realis] mood in Old as well as in Modern Italian, and to some types of declarative clauses in Modern ...
Irene Franco
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La focalisation des conditionnelles
Discours, 2014 The aim of this article is to identify the different syntactic modes existing in French to focus if-clauses in constructions such as {if-P, Q}, and {Q if-P}.
Gilles Corminboeuf
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