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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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Abstract Bantu languages exhibit a wide range of variation in the formation of relative clauses. The languages differ not only in the nature of the relative marker (free vs bound (prefix, suffix) form) but also in the position of the subject within the relative clause, in the use of object markers, and in the prosodic phrasing of the ...
Marie-Noëlle Lamy +2 more
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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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, 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 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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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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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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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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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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