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Mutually Dependent Markers in Clause Pairs [PDF]
Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 2023 This paper investigates the morphosyntactic properties of the mutually dependent markers in three representative constructions in Mandarin: the disjunctive yaome… yaome ‘or…or’ construction, the metalinguistic comparative yuqi…buru ‘than… rather ...
Zhang Niina Ning
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Dependent clauses with the conjunction kṳ̀ ‘and’ in Dinka
Afrika und Übersee, 2023 Dinka, a Western Nilotic language, has a construction in which a clause with dependent syntactic status is combined with a preceding clause of any type by means of the conjunction kṳ̀ ‘and’, which is also used for coordinating both noun phrases and ...
Torben Andersen
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Linguistica, 2010 This paper explains a very well-known feature of Classical Greek syntax from the perspective of Natural Syntax. Most grammars of Classical Greek state that infinitive clauses could be dependent on both verbs of speaking and thinking in Classical Greek ...
Jerneja Kavčič
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Forgotten factors in the development of dependent clauses in Swedish as a second language [PDF]
, 2015 This paper is concerned with the acquisition of Swedish dependent clauses. In a longitudinal study of Belgian foreign language learners of Swedish, three factors were found to be of special relevance in the learner’s successive acquisition of dependent ...
Wijers, Martje
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An Organized Approach to Using Large Language Models for Medical Information [PDF]
Western Journal of Emergency MedicineIntroduction: ChatGPT and other large language models (LLM) have increased in popularity. Despite the rapid rise in the implementation of such technologies, frameworks for implementing appropriate prompting techniques in medical applications are limited.
Saman Andalib +6 more
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Dependent clauses and focus particle in Kakabe
Language in Africa, 2023 The paper deals with the syntax of focalization in Kakabe (Mokole < Western Mande). By default, the argument focus is marked by a specialized particle lè following the focused constituent which remains in situ. To mark the sentence focus, lè usually follows the subject.
Alexandra Vydrina
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Interpreting St. Clair's Comanche Texts: Objective Case Marking and 'Same Subject' Dependent Clauses
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1990 St. Clair's Comanche texts, collected in 1902, appear to exhibit a very uncharacteristic form of objective case marking along with 'same subject' dependent clause types unknown elsewhere in the language.
Armagost, James L.
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Head- versus dependent-marking: the case of the clause
, 1993 This paper explores the potential for synthesizing three distinct strands of syntactic theory: Nichols’ typological distinction between head-marking and dependent-marking languages, generative approaches to functional categories and their projections, and grammaticalization as a mechanism of syntactic change.
Nigel Vincent
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Repeated dependent clauses in Yurakaré
, 2014 Yurakaré (isolate, Bolivia) has two constructions, both restricted to narratives, involving repetition of chunks of speech in the form of a dependent clause, marked for switch-reference. In the first construction, tail-head linkage, material from the previous sentence is repeated as a background to the next.
Rik van Gijn
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Comparison of Complement Clauses in Persian and Russian Languages with Focus on the Words that Need Complement [PDF]
̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2023 In Persian, the complement subordinate clause is known as one of the direct dependents of the verb, but in Russian, it can also be dependent on the verb, noun, short adjective, or predicative adverbs.
mahnush eskandari, Ali Saeidi
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