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Remarks on English Non-Restrictive Relative Clauses
Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics, 2015 The purpose of this paper is two folds: one is to examine the controversies among the existing research over the syntactic properties of English non-Restrictive Relative Clauses (hereafter, NRRCs) as opposed to Restrictive Relative Clauses (hereafter ...
Jaekeun Lee, Sungshim Hong
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Embedding non-restrictive relative clauses [PDF]
ZAS Papers in Linguistics, 2018 Schlenker (2010) recently provided data from English and French suggesting that,contrary to standard assumptions (McCawley, 1982; Potts, 2005; Arnold, 2007; AnderBoiset al., 2011), non-restrictive relative clauses (NRCs) can take narrow scope under operators ofthe sentence within which they are embedded.
Poschmann, Claudia
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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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English It-Clefts as non-Restrictive Relative Clauses
Studies in Generative Grammar, 2018 Lee Jaekeun, Sungshim Hong
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Restrictive Relative Clauses in Maltese [PDF]
, 2011 This paper provides a descriptive overview of restrictive relative clauses (henceforth RRCs) in Maltese, a construction which has received little atten- tion to date and which is poorly described in existing grammars.
Sadler, L, Camilleri, M
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Summer 2023, 2023 This research study investigates the difficulties faced by second language learners of Hazara division while comprehending English restrictive relative clauses and compares the comprehension sequences with the predictions of Subject-object hierarchy ...
Muhammad Waseem +2 more
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Restrictive Relative Clauses in Zahrani Spoken Arabic: A Minimalist Approach
US-China Foreign Language, 2023 This paper offers a thorough description of restrictive relative clauses in Zahrani Spoken Arabic (henceforth ZSA). It also provides a transformational analysis within Minimalist syntax.
Issa AlQurashi, Salih Alzahrani
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A Survey on Relative Clause Construction in Kurmanji [PDF]
مطالعات 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
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Restrictive relative clauses in Greek Heritage speakers in the US
Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies, 2022 This paper investigates the production of restrictive relative clauses (henceforth RRCs) in Heritage Greek in contact with US English. In Greek, RRCS are introduced either by the pronoun o opios ‘the who’ which agrees with the nominal head it modifies ...
A. Alexiadou, Vasiliki Rizou
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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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