Effects of Shared Word Order on Intrasentential Language Mixing in English-Dutch, Polish-Dutch, and Turkish-Dutch Bilingual Children [PDF]
Bilingual children commonly mix languages. Their language mixing generally adheres to grammatical constraints, yet it may impose processing and production costs.
Vera Snijders +3 more
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Clause order in sentences containing a since- subordinate
This paper deals with clauses introduced by the subordinator since (hereafter SC’s), and more specifically with their placement in the sentence in relation to the main clause (hereafter MC) on which they depend from a syntactic point of view.
Benedicte Guillaume
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An Experimental study on the processing of two-clause sentences
Some temporal conjunctions can express a variety of meanings on a causal-temporal dimension. By inference, a when-clause may indicate a cause, an event prior in time, or even an event occurring simultaneously with the main clause event (Bever & Townsend,
Sara dos Santos Ribeiro
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Comparison of Complement Clauses in Persian and Russian Languages with Focus on the Words that Need Complement [PDF]
In Persian, the complement subordinate clause is known as one of the direct dependents of the verb, but in Russian, it can also be dependent on the verb, noun, short adjective, or predicative adverbs.
mahnush eskandari, Ali Saeidi
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English Speaker Acquisition of Topic and Subject in Multiple Clause Sentences in Japanese
This study investigated native English speakers’ acquisition of the constraint for topic-wa and the preference for subject-ga in multiple-clause sentences in Japanese.
Shinichi Shoji
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C0 and Dutch-English code-switching
This paper aims to show that the mainstream Generative analysis for verb second (V2) languages – a functional head, C0, is responsible for V2 word order – does not hold up to scrutiny when confronted with bilingual data.
Emma Vanden Wyngaerd
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The Use of Constructions in The Novel The Autumn of The Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The present study deals with the features of long sentences in the novel The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This study aimed to identify the features of long sentences found in the novel and to suggest ways to comprehend the long ...
Sri Haryanti +3 more
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PERBEDAAN ANTARA KLAUSA SUBORDINATIF BAHASA INDONESIA DAN BAHASA INGGRIS
The aim of this study was to describe the difference between subordinate in Indonesian and in English viewed from subordinate clause theory from Jim Miller. This study used qualitative descriptive approach.
Anisak Syaid Fauziah +3 more
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'Now' with Subordinate Clauses
We investigate a novel use of the English temporal modifier ‘now’, in which it combines with a subordinate clause. We argue for a univocal treatment of the expression, on which the subordinating use is taken as basic and the nonsubordinating uses are morphologically derived.
Carter, Sam, Altshuler, Daniel
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Subject of Subordinate Clause as Object with Verbs of Perception, Thought, and Communication in Old Russian [PDF]
This paper describes the Old Russian construction involving verbs of perception, thought, and communication. In this construction, a single semantic argument corresponds to two syntactic constituents: a direct object and a finite subordinate clause, the ...
Anna A. Pichkhadze
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