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Clause Chaining and Discourse Continuity in Turkish Children's Narratives
The present study examines the development of complex sentences with non-finite clause combining with particular focus on clause chaining, in narratives of 40 Turkish-speaking 4- to 11-year-olds and six adults elicited by a wordless picture book. Results
Hale Ögel-Balaban, Ayhan Aksu-Koç
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An (impossible) excursion into matrix [Spec, vP] out of an elided complement clause in Korean
This paper investigates into impossible deletion of an embedded predicate complex in Korean. We have first shown as in Chung (2009) that when an embedded subject or object stays within an embedded clause, the case in point is attributed to non ...
Myung-Kwan Park
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Complement Clause Formation In Leteh
This paper explores the complementation phenomenon in Leteh. The discussion is done within the framework of Basic Linguistic Theory (Dixon 1997), and further appeals to the theory of grammaticalization to explain the multiple functions of Leteh ...
Ansah, MA
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Engineering novel complement activity into a pulmonary surfactant protein [PDF]
Complement neutralizes invading pathogens, stimulates inflammatory and adaptive immune responses, and targets non- or altered-self structures for clearance.
Toth, Julia +20 more
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Complementizer Drop And IP Complementation in Japanese
The main purpose of the present paper is to provide a principled account for a phenomenon called "Complementizer Drop" in the dialects of Japanese and its related phenomena in teens of the head-raising approach without recourse to the ECP or GB-type ...
Fukuda, Minoru
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The Use of Constructions in The Novel The Autumn of The Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The present study deals with the features of long sentences in the novel The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This study aimed to identify the features of long sentences found in the novel and to suggest ways to comprehend the long ...
Sri Haryanti +3 more
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Finiteness in South Slavic Complement Clauses
This paper shows that the distribution of (non‑)finiteness in the South Slavic languages reflects an implicational scale along an independently attested semantic complementation hierarchy (e.g., Givón 1980). We suggest that in the South Slavic languages,
S. Wurmbrand +4 more
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Evidence for head raising in Kiswahili relative clauses
The author presents evidence from Kiswahili supporting a head-raising analysis recently proposed in Kayne (1994) and Bianchi (1999), in which the relative clause is generated as a complement of the determiner.
Deo Ngonyani
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This article analyzes Basque irudi (= 'seem') verbs within a generative framework and proposes that the ergative pattern displayed by this class of verbs arises because of the inherent lexical feature [-absolutive}.
Xabier Artiagoitia
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Relative clause structures in the Rawang language [PDF]
This paper discusses the types of relative clause and noun complement structures found in the Rawang language, a Tibeto-Burman language of northern Myanmar, as well as their origin and uses, with data taken mainly from naturally occurring texts.
LaPolla, Randy J.
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