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Phrase Structure Patterning and Licensing for English and Serbian Speaker-Oriented Adverb Subclasses
Romanian Journal of English Studies, 2016 This paper attempts to set phrase structure rules for English and Serbian speaker-oriented adverb subclasses. Adverbs are looked at here as specifiers licensed by the semantic feature [ILLOCUTIONARY FORCE].
Dimković-Telebaković Gordana
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Lessons from overtly-headed exclamatives in Spanish varieties [PDF]
IsoglossInverting wh-exclamative sentences with an overt complementizer in languages like Spanish pose a serious challenge to traditional accounts of obligatory subject-verb inversion.
Julio Villa-García
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Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2016 The paper presents the use of the complementizer say in various types of sentence structures of Nigerian Pidgin English. The data comes from the contemporary language in its written form and is based mostly on transcriptions of Wazobia FM on-air ...
Olga Frąckiewicz
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A New Outlook of Complementizers [PDF]
Languages, 2017 This paper investigates clausal complements of factive and non-factive predicates in English, with particular focus on the distribution of overt and null that complementizers.
Ji Young Shim, Tabea Ihsane
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SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN TWO EXCLAMATIVE SENTENCES OF BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE
Gragoatá, 2016 In a descriptive side, this paper aims to observe the syntactic-semantic pattern of two exclamative structures under-researched of Brazilian Portuguese and, through some diagnostics, verify the differences and similarities between them.
Marcelo Amorim Sibaldo
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A Syntactic Analysis of Chinese Adjectives and Adverbs in Relation to De-Complementizer
, 2023 The present study examines two hypotheses on de-morpheme in relation to Chinese adjectives and adverbs. It answers the question of whether de is treated as a determiner marker or a complementizer.
DIANCHENG LI (14048025)
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The Translation Text of Drama “Macbeth”: Grammatical Transformation of Adjunct in Noun Phrase
, 2021 Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s play that used unique and dramatic choice of words in its adjective and noun. Grammatical transformation of adjectival adjunct in noun phrase in the translation text of drama Macbeth has caused the shift of phrase’s ...
Imamah, Firda Zuldi, Subiyanto, Agus
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The Syntax and Semantics of Cantonese Particles in the Left Periphery
Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 2020 Adopting the cartographic approach, this paper proposes syntactic positions for all left-periphery particles above the tense phrase (TP) in Cantonese.
Wakefield John C.
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Microvariation in Catalan and Occitan complementizers: the so-called expletive se
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2010 The present paper offers further independent evidence for the functional projection INT(errogative) in the left periphery of the sentence (Rizzi 2001) that is needed for an adequate analysis of interrogative clauses in Catalan and Occitan Pyrenees ...
Gemma Rigau, Jordi Suïls
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, 2017 This chapter reviews the phenomenology of complementizer‐deletion and the approaches that have emerged in successive phases of the generative framework, focusing mainly on English, and distinguishing two subtypes: (i) optional C‐deletion in embedded ...
Bianchi V, FRASCARELLI, MARA
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