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Measuring Syntactic Complexity in Spoken and Written Learner Language: Comparing the Incomparable? [PDF]
, 2014 Spoken and written language are two modes of language. When learners aim at higher skill levels, the expected outcome of successful second language learning is usually to become a fluent speaker and writer who can produce accurate and complex language in
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Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 2023 Recent experiments have confirmed earlier informal evidence that finite adjuncts are not islands categorically. Specifically, it has been shown that adjuncts are not necessarily islands for all dependency types (Sprouse et al. 2016), and that the island status of an adjunct depends on the type of the adjunct clause in question (Kush et al. 2019; Müller
Ingrid Bondevik, Terje Lohndal
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Gagauz right-branching propositions introduced by the element ani [PDF]
, 2001 This article describes a set of right-branching dependent clauses based on finite predicates in Gagauz. These clause types have developed, as will be argued, under the influence of Bulgarian and Russian and have displaced the left-branching clauses of ...
Astrid Menz
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The dynamics of syntax acquisition: facilitation between syntactic structures [PDF]
, 2011 This paper sets out to show how facilitation between different clause structures operates over time in syntax acquisition. The phenomenon of facilitation within given structures has been widely documented, yet inter-structure facilitation has rarely been
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Studies in African Linguistics, 2017 Ndendeule, a Bantu language spoken in southern Tanzania, has six conditional constructions identified by conditional markers. Construction I is marked by the subordinating conjunction anda ‘if,’ while Construction II is characterized by the conditional ...
Deo Ngonyani
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A Reconsideration of Grammatical Categorization in English: The Clause
Legon Journal of the Humanities, 2019 Various models for categorizing grammatical units exist in the literature. Particularly nebulous, however, are terminologies for conceptualizing categories at the level of the clause. For example, the term complement has been used, confusingly sometimes,
John Franklin Wiredu
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Amharische Syntax in späten Originalwerken des Gǝʿǝz
Aethiopica, 2011 [Wal.: The Gǝʿǝz syntax of the Sälamat, short poems which were added to the text of the Synaxarium at a later date, shows features that are known from modern Ethiosemitic lan-guages, especially Amharic.
Alexander Sima †; herausgegeben von Michael Waltisberg
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Evaluability: an alternative approach to polarity sensitivity [PDF]
, 2013 Based on Brandtler (2012), this paper argues that polarity items are sensitive to evaluability, a concept that refers to the possibility of accepting or rejecting an utterance as true in a communicative exchange.
Brandtler, Johan
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On morphosyntactic and semantic conditions of conjuction syntactic transformations - gde, kako, da [PDF]
Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2010 Author is discussing the ways in which semantic transformations of three Serbian dependent clause conjunctions (gde, kako, kad) occur. The main author’s idea is that the morpho-syntactic structure has a significant role in conditions that make ...
Stanojčić Živojin
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« Car je suis un... tu sais quoi ? Rappeur » : Étude pragma-syntaxique de la séquence Tu sais quoi ?
Lexique, 2021 This article investigates uses of the interrogative sequence Tu sais Qu-? (most known under its variant tu sais quoi ?, Eng. you know what?), which are typically involved in projecting a subsequent action in discourse.
Alexander Guryev
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