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Processing covert dependency: An eye-tracking study of scope interpretations of embedded Wh-questions in Mandarin. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 Non-local dependency in Mandarin wh-questions has been extensively researched in theoretical linguistics, but it remains an under-studied topic in the field of language processing.
Deran Kong, Yu-Yin Hsu
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Osservazioni sull’uso di yád in antico indiano
Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2021 This paper considers the placement of the complementizer yád within the sentence and the functional value of yád in Old Indian. It will be noted that the complementizer yád, like other subordinating conjunctions in some ancient and modern Indo-European ...
Massimo Vai
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A Minimalist Approach to the Syntactic Position of the Q-Particle ‘aya’ in Persian [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2020 The present paper aims to determine the position of the Q-particle ‘aya’ in Persian within the Minimalist framework (e.g. Chomsky, 1995, 2001). To this end, first, evidence is provided against the idea that the Q-particle ‘aya’ is in the head of the ...
Hossein Moghani
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Vocatives and Vocative Particles in the Syntax-pragmatics Interface in Persian [PDF]
زبان پژوهی, 2021 Vocatives are small but important expressions in the meaning of an utterance. They are defined as a means of drawing an addressee's attention, in order to “establish or maintain a relationship between this addressee and some proposition” (Lambrecht, 1996,
Abbas Ali Ahangar, Zahra Mozaffari
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Journal of Language and Literature, 2021 In the Principle and Parameter approach, the Indonesian suffix –kan can be treated as an inflection that functions to create a causative relation between the arguments which the verb takes. Along with the treatment, the voice affixes (Vc) meng-, di-, and
Benedictus Bherman Dwijatmoko
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Pseudo-Complex Clauses in Persian and Their Constructing Strategies [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2021 Morphologically, syntactically and semantically, adverbs can be defined and classified in different ways, adverbs modify propositions and semantically convey various concepts.
Fateme Yegane, Farhad Sasani
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Focus position below TP in Standard Arabic [PDF]
Saudi Journal of Language Studies, 2022 Purpose – Adopting the split complementizer phrase (CP) hypothesis, the paper aims at providing an account for object cliticization in Standard Arabic (SA) as an instance of object displacement.
Abdulkhaliq Alazzawie +1 more
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Complementizer Phrases Headed by de in Mandarin
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021 Scholars have provided a large number of studies of de-phrases and de-clauses in Mandarin. However, there are still some types of de have not been fully discussed. My aim in the present research is to discover the special types of de morpheme as a complementizer.
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Modeling Complement Types in Phrase-Based SMT [PDF]
Proceedings of the First Conference on Machine Translation: Volume 1,
Research Papers, 2016 We explore two approaches to model complement types (NPs and PPs) in an Englishto-German SMT system: A simple abstract representation inserts pseudo-prepositions that mark the beginning of noun phrases, to improve the symmetry of source and target complement types, and to provide a flat structural information on phrase boundaries.
Weller-Di Marco, Marion +2 more
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Prosodic conditioning of the null complementizer in English
Glossa, 2023 This paper presents a novel account of the distribution of the null complementizer (C) in English, arguing that the licensing of null C is a case of prosodically conditioned allomorphy (Carstairs 1988, 1990; Paster 2006; Inkelas 2014).
William W. Kruger
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