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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Clause structure"”.
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Tseltal clause structure
This dissertation examines the syntax of clausal structure in Tseltal (Mayan) with a particular focus on agreement phenomena. The first domain of investigation is the External Possession Construction, in which the clausal agreement is controlled by a possessor of the internal argument, rather than …
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The clause structure of Turaif Arabic
In this dissertation, I investigate the clause structure of Turaif Arabic, an undocumented dialect, a dialect that is spoken in the northern region of Saudi Arabia. I present a description and analysis of the three main clauses SVO, VOS, and VOS. I show that one order may have different …
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Clause structure, agreement and case in Gitksan
… and surface appearances to the contrary, the structure of a Gitksan sentence conforms to the putatively universal constraints on sentence structure proposed in Government and Binding theory. In order to defend this claim, I show that other structures which have been proposed for the language …
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A tagmemic analysis of Swahili clause structure
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Linguistics and Oriental and African Languages, 1968
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The Clause Structure of the Shimaore Dialect of Comorian (Bantu)
… not relying on an agreement phrase in the clause structure of the language, and using an approach to agreement similar to that of Henderson (2006). In addressing the order of functional projections in Shimaore, I draw on work by Cinque (1999) and Julien (2002), among others. In addition to …
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The role of case-marked noun phrases in clause structure building
… markers are crucially implicated in the structure building. I also demonstrate how some of the traditional issues revolving around the so-called null categories – both null arguments and null predicates – are resolved; null predicates are licensed strictly by syntax, while null arguments …
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The influence of clause structure on the perceptual analysis of sentences
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics, 1974.
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Clause structure in the development of child L2 English of L1 Arabic
… this thesis investigates the acquisition of clause structure from the earliest stages of language production of a child native speaker of Arabic learner of English. Specific attention is paid to the acquisition of the TP and CP systems and their related syntactic features. The first major …
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Subjects And Subjecthood In Nepali: An Analysis Of Nepali Clause Structure And Its Challenges To Relational Grammar And Government & Binding
… and Modern Nepali use a variety of nonbasic clause structures, including dative-subject (inversion) clauses, obligational (gerundive) clauses, passive clauses, and, in Early Nepali, ergative clauses. The properties of basic clause subjects are split in these clauses between two NPs--the …
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Differences Between Full and Reduced Relative Clauses
… presentation, there was no indication that clause structure affected memory, in contrast to many previous studies. These findings show that previous claims about the importance of clause structure in processing must be limited, since they did not generalize to the center-embedded clauses …
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The Syntax of Negation and the Licensing of Negative Polarity Items in Hindi
… negatives in Hindi. First, it outlines the clause structure of Hindi and locates the syntactic position of sentential negatives as well as constituent negatives within that structure. It is argued that sentential negative in Hindi negation marker heads its own maximal projection, NegP, which …
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Machine translation through clausal syntax : a statistical approach for Chinese to English
… the translation step as a prediction of English clause structure from Chinese clause structure. Chinese sentences are segmented and parsed, split into clauses, and independently translated into English clauses using a discriminative feature based model. Clausal arguments, such as subject and …
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The Syntax and Placement of Wolof Clitics
… relative to both the CP and TP layers of clause structure, and that there are two independent types of clitics in Wolof (XP and X0). Both clitic types are ordered due to a property of T0, and are further positioned due to requirements of the C-domain. This analysis of nominal and verbal …
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Superlative degree clauses : evidence from NPI licensing
… grammatical elements. Specifically, an embedded clause structure which appears at first glance to be a restrictive relative clause modifier will be argued to be an argument of the superlative morpheme, and an analysis will be presented that brings superlatives in line with comparatives in finding …
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Sex-marked language differences : a linguistic analysis of lexicon and syntax in the female and male dialogue in the eight original plays of Lillian Hellman
… were emphasis, communication unit length, and clause structure. Markings of emphasis were significant by gender, female characters having both more instances and more marked words. Length evidenced no difference, likely because of requirements of the dramatic setting. The study of clause …
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Verb agreement and case marking in Burushaski
… facts, and several others relating to Burushaski clause structure, within the framework of Relational Grammar.</p>
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The Syntax and Typology of Bantu Relative Clauses
… found across complementizer-type relative clauses in the Bantu languages, focusing on strong correlations between points of variation. The facts I discuss concern co-variation between agreement in the C-T domain and subject-verb inversion as well as co-variation between object agreement and …
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Implementing Cognitive Semantics
This book is about how concepts are structured and processed. It is based on the findings in cognitive linguistics over the last decade, where thorough studies have been made about how concepts function. Concepts appear as image schemata, a spatial form of representation with very powerful …
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A GENERAL THEORY OF CORRELATIVITY
… view that correlatives are a subtype of relative clauses. Focusing on Vedic Sanskrit, Old and Young Avestan, Old Persian, Hittite, and Homeric Greek, the study presents both synchronic and diachronic analyses to illuminate the syntactic behavior and historical evolution of correlativity. …
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A comparison of the textual structures of Arabic and English written texts : A study in the comparative orality of Arabic
… English. 7. Arabic displays more repetition of clause structure than English. 8. Arabic uses more multifunctional connectors than English. In addition the analysis shows that English technical writing favours greater thematic complexity than Arabic does, and different patterns of thematic …
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