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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
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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, 2017 A relative clause is a clause that modifies a noun, and thus, it has an adjectival function. The noun that is modified is called “the head” (or “head noun”). Depending on the language, any constituent of the relative clause can be relativized, i.e. can be the head.
Branchini Chiara, Meltem Kelepir
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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 +5 more
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Relative Clauses in Amaka Azuike's 'Violated' [PDF]
, 2023 This study examined the usage of the relative clause as a wealthy, crucial and complicated syntactic procedure in modern English Literature through the examination of Amaka Azuike’s Violated, a short play. The study determined the use of relative clauses
Bwai, Patricia Nathan +1 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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Adverbial clauses with -ig and the “until -puzzle” [PDF]
, 2013 This paper is devoted to untangling some of the cross-linguistic puzzles that are associated with temporal adverbial clauses in general, and until-clauses in particular.
Ürögdi, Barbara, Barbara Ürögdi
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Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2020 The purpose of this study was to explore the function of English restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses in discourse cohesion and also intended to examine the possible differences between comprehension and production of restrictive relative ...
Masoomeh Benshams +3 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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Relative and Pseudo-Relative Clauses in Slovene [PDF]
Slovene Linguistic Studies, 2007 The author explores the various types of relative clauses in Slovene, focusing on a construction that has traditionally been assumed to be a special type of relative clause in which there seems to be a mismatch between the number feature of the clitic pronoun and that of the relative head, e.g., Najboljši iskalec si, [RC kar smo jih imeli.]1 best-Nom ...
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