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Adverbial clauses and adverbial concord [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This paper speculates that the merge site of an adverbial clause, i.e. its external syntax, is determined by its derivational history, i.e. its internal syntax.
Endo, Yoshio, Haegeman, Liliane
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Highs and Lows in English Attachment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Grillo and Costa (2014) claim that Relative-Clause attachment ambiguity resolution is largely dependent on whether or not a Pseudo-Relative interpretation is available.
Costa, J   +3 more
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A Survey on Relative Clause Construction in Kurmanji [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات زبان‌‌ها و گویش‌های غرب ایران, 2020
Relative clause construction in Iranian languages appears mainly in sentences as a subordinate clause and acts as a describer for the preceding noun. Following Dixon's (2010) framework, our aim in this paper is to study and describe the relative clause ...
Shaho Majidi, Mehrdad Naghzguy-Kohan
doaj   +1 more source

Island Extractions in the Wild: A Corpus Study of Adjunct and Relative Clause Islands in Danish and English

open access: yesLanguages, 2022
Adjuncts and relative clauses are traditionally classified as strong islands for extraction across languages. However, the Mainland Scandinavian (MSc.) languages have been reported to differ from e.g., English in allowing extraction from adjunct and ...
Christiane Müller, Clara Ulrich Eggers
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The role of memory in processing relative clauses in children with Specific Language Impairment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Purpose: This study investigated the relationship between 2 components of memory - phonological short-term memory (pSTM) and working memory (WM) - and the control of relative clause constructions in children with specific language impairment (SLI ...
Fletcher, Paul, Frizelle, Pauline
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The syntax of relative clause constructions in Runyankore-Rukiga: Atypological perspective

open access: yesStellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2019
This paper discusses the morphosyntactic properties of relative clause constructions in the Runyankore-Rukiga language cluster (Bantu, JE13/14, Uganda).
Asiimwe, Allen
doaj   +1 more source

Typology of Persian relative clauses [PDF]

open access: yes̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2020
Persian relative construction which can be followed by a demonstrative has Det N RC word order. Persian relative clause is a post-nominal subordinate clause that is the most common type in the world.
Solmaz Mahmoodi
doaj   +1 more source

Appositive relative clauses

open access: yesLinguistics in the Netherlands, 2000
The difference between restrictive and appositive relativization is usually represented in syntax as complementation versus adjunction with respect to the antecedent noun. Instead I propose that an appositive relative clause (ARC) is coordinated with its antecedent.
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The Frobenius anatomy of word meanings I: subject and object relative pronouns

open access: yes, 2013
This paper develops a compositional vector-based semantics of subject and object relative pronouns within a categorical framework. Frobenius algebras are used to formalise the operations required to model the semantics of relative pronouns, including ...
Clark, Stephen   +2 more
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Operational Semantics of Resolution and Productivity in Horn Clause Logic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This paper presents a study of operational and type-theoretic properties of different resolution strategies in Horn clause logic. We distinguish four different kinds of resolution: resolution by unification (SLD-resolution), resolution by term-matching ...
Fu, Peng, Komendantskaya, Ekaterina
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