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Relative clauses in Western Muskogean languages
Glossa, 2017 Chickasaw and Choctaw, the two Western Muskogean languages, have several different relative clause constructions, each of which is internally headed: (1) relative clauses with final demonstratives; (2) relative clauses in which the verb is marked with ...
Lynn Gordon, Pamela Munro
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An overview of relative clauses in Gavar [PDF]
Afrika und ÜberseeThe goal of this paper is to give a typological overview of the main characteristics of restrictive relative clauses in Gavar. The analysis is based on 572 examples of relative clauses taken from a corpus of 59 interlinearised texts, elicited examples ...
Melanie Viljoen
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The acquisition of German relative clauses: A case study [PDF]
, 2008 This paper investigates the development of relative clauses in the speech of one German-speaking child aged 2;0 to 5;0. The earliest relative clauses we found in the data occur in topicalization constructions that are only a little different from simple ...
Diessel, Holger +2 more
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The role of working memory and contextual constraints in children's processing of relative clauses [PDF]
, 2010 An auditory sentence comprehension task investigated the extent to which the integration of contextual and structural cues was mediated by verbal memory span with 32 English-speaking 6- to 8-year old children.
Weighall, AR +5 more
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On Double-Headed Relative Clauses [PDF]
Linguística, 2011 The present article documents the presence in a number of languages and language families (as well as in various child languages) of relative clauses displaying simultaneously an internal and an external head, and considers the implications of this ...
Guglielmo Cinque
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Generalization of Clauses Relative to a Theory [PDF]
Machine Learning, 1997 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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Time Reference in Mandarin Relative Clauses
Languages, 2022 In this paper, we investigate constraints on the time reference of embedded clauses in Mandarin. We show that while English past-tensed embedded clauses disallow later-than-matrix readings in intensional contexts on a de dicto construal, Mandarin ...
Hongyuan Sun, Hamida Demirdache
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The Role of Embedded Noun Phrase Syntactic Category in Processing Subject and Object Relative Clauses in Persian [PDF]
̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2022 Relative construction is one of the complex syntactic constructions involving various structures depending on the different language typologies. Studies in several languages have shown that subject relative clauses (SRCs) are easier and faster to process
Shohre Sadeghi, Shahla Raghibdoust
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Relative Clauses and Noun-Modifying Clauses in Chantyal [PDF]
, 2008 The document contains a talk handout of a lecture held by Michael Noonan at the meeting on Relative Clauses and Noun-Modifying Clauses: A Cross-linguistic Investigation in Stanford University on March 22-24, 2008.
Noonan, Michael
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Adverbial causal clauses as relative clauses
IsoglossThis paper investigates to what extent adverbial causal clauses and relative clauses can be reduced as one and the same phenomenon. Whereas causal clauses have always posed a challenge for a unified account of relativization and adverbial subordination ...
Emanuela Sanfelici, Sira Rodeghiero
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