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Information Structure in Subordinate and Subordinate-Like Clauses
Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 2003zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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2007
Abstract If there is one question that has excited students of language genesis and language evolution perhaps more than any others then it is the one that we listed in Chapter 1 as (1n), namely: How did the properties believed to be restricted to modern human languages arise, in particular syntax and the recursive use of language ...
Bernd Heine, Tania Kuteva
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Abstract If there is one question that has excited students of language genesis and language evolution perhaps more than any others then it is the one that we listed in Chapter 1 as (1n), namely: How did the properties believed to be restricted to modern human languages arise, in particular syntax and the recursive use of language ...
Bernd Heine, Tania Kuteva
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2007
In subordinate clauses, the C position is occupied by a complementizer word, which may be null. The finite verb stays in V. SpecCP is either empty or occupied by a wh-word, or by some other element indicating its semantic function. Nominal clauses are finite or non-finite. Finite nominal clauses are declarative or interrogative.
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In subordinate clauses, the C position is occupied by a complementizer word, which may be null. The finite verb stays in V. SpecCP is either empty or occupied by a wh-word, or by some other element indicating its semantic function. Nominal clauses are finite or non-finite. Finite nominal clauses are declarative or interrogative.
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SYNTACTIC SUBORDINATION OF CLAUSES
1999Relative clauses may be attributive and modify a head nominal or they may stand independently of a head nominal and have themselves the status of a nominal. We shall refer to these types as attributive relative clauses and nominal relative clauses respectively.
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Cofán subordinate clauses in a typology of subordination
2011This paper presents various types of subordinate clauses in Cofán, an isolate language spoken on both sides of the Ecuadorian-Colombian border. These constructions are evaluated in light of parameters used in typological studies on subordination. We show that Cofán has two types of subordinate clauses: (i) Those that are marked with special forms of ...
Fischer, R., van Lier, E.
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2023
Abstract The main aim of this chapter is to examine adverbial causal af - því-að -clauses in modern Icelandic.
Ásgrímur Angantýsson +1 more
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Abstract The main aim of this chapter is to examine adverbial causal af - því-að -clauses in modern Icelandic.
Ásgrímur Angantýsson +1 more
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Clause types and subordination
Selected papers on theoretical and applied linguistics, 2000In this paper one of the most important minimalist ideas is exploited for a model of clause linking. The formal encoding of information through bundles of features projected from the lexicon into syntax is thereby presented in a modified way.
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Subordinate clauses and discourse
Paper in Linguistics, 1982Abstract In this paper I discuss adverbial subordinate clauses from the point of view of their function in discourse. It is shown that in various languages there are parallels between the levels of simple sentence and complex sentence in respect to the expression of discourse meaning: (a) adverbial subordinate clauses, like thematic elements (e.g.
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SUBORDINATE CLAUSE FORMATION IN EVENKI SUBORDINATE CLAUSES WITH ADJECTIVAL PREDICATES
Journal of the Institute of Oriental Studies RAS, 2022openaire +1 more source