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The development of subordinate clauses in German and Swedish as L2s: a theoretical and methodological comparison [PDF]
, 2014 In this article, we aim to contribute to the debate about the use of subordination as a measure of language proficiency. We compare two theories of SLA—specifically, processability theory (PT; Pienemann, 1998) and dynamic systems theory (de Bot, Lowie, &
Baten, Kristof, Håkansson, Gisela
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Subject of Subordinate Clause as Object with Verbs of Perception, Thought, and Communication in Old Russian [PDF]
Slovene, 2012 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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Anaphora Resolution in Near-Native Speakers of Italian [PDF]
, 2006 This study presents data from an experiment on the interpretation of intrasentential anaphora in Italian by native Italian speakers and by English speakers who have learned Italian as adults and have reached a near-native level of proficiency in this ...
Alonso-Ovalle, L. +20 more
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Questions with long-distance dependencies: a usage-based perspective [PDF]
, 2008 Attested questions with long-distance dependencies (e.g., What do you think you’re doing?) tend to be quite stereotypical: the matrix clause usually consists of a WH word, the auxiliary do or did, the pronoun you, and the verb think or say, with no ...
Dabrowska, Ewa
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RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2021 Actively developing mass media field generates high demand for specialists who are able to translate texts of social and political topics from Russian into a foreign language and vice versa quickly and efficiently.
Elena A. Oganova, Olga A. Alekseeva
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Subordinate clauses of time with conjunctions referring to limito r boundary
Lietuvių Kalba, 2009 Subordinate clauses of time with the conjunctions referring to a limit or boundary kol, iki, ligi can express not only relations of a sequence of events/situations or simultaneity, but also highlight duration and indicate efforts put into the performance
Jūratė Pajėdienė
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Multiple-clause constituent questions: intonation and variation in Hungarian [PDF]
, 2010 When a question phrase bears a grammatical function in a subordinate clause but the interrogativity it introduces extends over a higher clause, there are two main possibilities in Hungarian: (i) the question phrase appears preverbally in the clause over ...
Dayal V. +23 more
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Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2019 A certain class of predicates in German optionally allows for their complement clause to appear as coordinated with the matrix clause rather than embedded into it.
Weisser Philipp
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On adverbial clauses in spoken Lithuanian
Lietuvių Kalba, 2020 The aim of the paper is to investigate adverbial clauses of time, cause, condition and concession in spontaneous private communication. The study explores semantic relations between the main and subordinate clauses, grammatical features and predominant ...
Erika Jasionytė-Mikučionienė
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Exploring mood in neverver [PDF]
, 2011 In a preverbal position, all clauses in the Neverver language of Malakula Island (Vanuatu) are either unmarked, or carry the morpheme m- prefixed to the verb.
Barbour, Julie Renee
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