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Natural Syntax: English dependent clauses
, 2007 Natural Syntax is a developing deductive theory. The naturalness judgements are couched in naturalness scales, which follow from the basic parameters (or “axioms”) listed at the beginning of the paper. The predictions of the theory are calculated in the deductions, whose chief components are a pair of naturalness scales and the rules governing the ...
Janez Orešnik
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Semantics, analogy and alternation capacity of syntactic structures [PDF]
Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2013 Departing from examples found in the language of Njegoš and later writers from a broader area, and on the theoretical premises of cognitive linguistics as well as on transformational grammar methodology, author is discussing the syntactic and ...
Stanojčić Živojin S.
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Towards Parsing Croatian Complex Sentences: Dependent Noun Clauses [PDF]
, 2011 In this paper, authors will present methods for parsing Croatian complex sentences in which a dependent clause serves as a direct object to the main verb. This research is based on the resources that have already been developed for parsing simple Croatian sentences.
Štefanec, Vanja +2 more
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The typology of actual clauses in Eastern Bantu
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2023 This article reports on the existence of actual clause morphology and interpretation in selected Bantu languages. Essentially, we treat the actual clause as an embedded assertion whereby the utterer is committed not only to the truth of the proposition ...
Justine Mukhwana Sikuku +2 more
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Ku Waru Clause Chaining and the Acquisition of Complex Syntax
Frontiers in Communication, 2020 How do children learn to understand and use complex syntactic constructions? In English, Diessel (2004) shows that they do so in two different ways.
Alan Rumsey +2 more
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The discourse marker anyway in the parallel corpus InterCorp [PDF]
Ostrava Journal of English Philology, 2023 ‘Anyway’ is a multifunctional, context‑dependent expression that functions as a contrastive‑concessive conjunct and a connective discourse marker. The paper focusses on the treatment of its connective functions in Czech translations from English.
Lukáš Hrnčíř, Gabriela Zapletalová
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Negative Words in Comparative Structures in French and Their Equivalents in Serbian
Vestnik za Tuje Jezike, 2017 In French and Serbian comparative constructions of equality and inequality, negative words are distributed according to their forms, meanings and functions. French negative words - ne most frequently complemented by a particle pas or some other negative
Ljubica Vlahović, Snežana Gudurić
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Psychology of Language and Communication, 2022 The current study presents an analysis of a linguistic device supporting interactional coherence in computer-mediated communication (CMC). The analysis focused on the use of the German causative conjunction weil and, more specifically, on the syntactic ...
Glaznieks Aivars
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FIDIC force majeure clause from the viewpoint of Serbian law [PDF]
Anali Pravnog Fakulteta u Beogradu, 2023 The purpose of this paper is to present force majeure as stipulated in FIDIC forms, which are nowadays frequently in use when negotiating the conclusion of construction contracts concerning major projects.
Stojković Sara
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Clause and predicative constituents in an Austronesian language: Lampung language
Topics in Linguistics, 2020 This research is conducted qualitatively and aimed at patterning and describing clause and sentence structure in Lampung language through the configuration of its constituents.
Afrianto +4 more
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