Results 31 to 40 of about 2,896,103 (294)
Sur le classement des relatives adjectives
Multilinguales, 2015 We examine in what follows a typological issue: the classification of restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses. The establishment of their main subdivisions leans on the traditional parameters: morphology, syntax, functioning, and meaning ...
Jacques Evouna
doaj +1 more source
No longer an orphan: evidence for appositive attachment from sentence comprehension
Glossa, 2018 In this paper, we investigate the comprehension of appositive relative clauses and nominal appositives. First, we present experimental evidence that suggests that nominal appositives and appositive relative clauses behave like other adjunct phrases with ...
Brian Dillon +2 more
doaj +2 more sources
Restrictive relative clauses in Acadian French [PDF]
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2017 Restricted relatives in Acadian French display the following peculiarities: generalization of que ‘that’ as the relative complementizer; deletion of que ‘that’; orphaned prepositions; failure of subject-verb agreement between the relative noun and the ...
Virginia Hill
doaj
Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 2018 Schlenker (2013) gives a number of puzzling counterexamples to the widely accepted claim that non-restrictive relative clauses (NRCs) are always interpreted with respect to the global context, and never in the scope of entailment-canceling operators such
Katja Jasinskaja, Claudia Poschmann
semanticscholar +1 more source
La frase relativa Studio analitico linguistico [PDF]
Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social Scienceson Relative ClausesRelative clauses are a fundamental structure in the Italian language and serve the function of subordinating a clause in order to add, specify, or clarify information related to an element of the main clause, known as the antecedent ...
Amel Abdelhafez hanafy
doaj +1 more source
Structural Change in Relative Clauses and the Autonomy of Heritage Grammars
Languages, 2022 This paper addresses the question of structural change in relative clauses in heritage speakers of two varieties of Venetan, a northern Italo-Romance language.
Alberto Frasson
doaj +1 more source
On the status of Resumptive Pronouns in Restrictive Relative Clauses [PDF]
, 2006 We discuss the status of Modern Greek Resumptive Pronouns, focusing on Restrictive Relative Clauses. Several analyses have been proposed to account for the phenomenon of resumption in Modern Greek Relative Clauses arguing in favour of a similar treatment
Chatsiou, A
core +8 more sources
An Examination of Relative Clauses in Argumentative Essays Written by EFL Learners
Journal of Language and Education, 2018 Syntactic complexity has received a great deal of attention in the literature on second language writing. Relative clauses, which function as a kind of noun phrase post-modifier, are among those structures that are believed to contribute to the ...
Hesamoddin Shahriari +2 more
doaj +1 more source
The Acquisition of English Indefinite Restrictive Relative Clauses by Lattakian Arabic Speakers
Forum for Linguistic StudiesOne of the goals of second language acquisition research is to contribute to the development of a theory that can answer intriguing issues related to the role of first language in development and the extent to which universal principles of linguistic ...
Buthaina Shaheen
semanticscholar +1 more source
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
core +1 more source