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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Syntactic theory"”.
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Free word-order syntax: The challenge from Vedic Sanskrit to contemporary formal syntactic theory
… showing little if any evidence for levels of syntactic organization between that of lexical items and that of maximal projections of those items. But the large corpus of Vedic literature does show evidence that Vedic grammar routinely generated NPs, PPs, and VPs into which words were organized.
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Linguistic Transfer in Andean Spanish: Syntax or Pragmatics?
… same properties as in Standard Spanish. The main syntactic properties of focus fronting in Standard Spanish are its sensitivity to weak crossover effects and long distance movement. Elicitation studies were designed to test for these properties in Spanish and Quechua. In addition, naturalistic …
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Neg-raising : polarity and presupposition
In this thesis, I advance a semantic theory of Neg-Raising rooted in the work of Bartsch (1973) and Heim (2000) and defend it against syntactic and pragmatic alternatives. The primary source of support for my position on Neg-Raising comes from the natural way in which the approach explains a …
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Multiple dominance and interface operations
… explores the consequences of multidominance in syntactic theory, with a particular focus on how multidominance interacts with interpretation at the interfaces. In particular, I explore how interpretation is sensitive to complete dominance, in which a phrase dominates every position containing …
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Towards an explanatory division of competence and performance : a language-independent parsing scheme
… removing some of the burden from the competence theory(the syntactic theory, in this case) and placing it on the performance theory (the parsing model), a more perspicuous model of human language-processing emerges. By delimiting more strictly the division between competence and performance in …
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Investigating structural ambiguity in newspaper headlines: A case study of selected headlines in the Namibian newspaper between 1st February and 31st December 2020
… the data were analysed using Clare’s (2013) theory of ambiguity to demonstrate that the headlines are structurally ambiguous, Carnie’s (2013) syntactic theory to find possible explanations for each ambiguous phrase or sentence and Bornstain’s (1997) tree diagram theory to reveal the …
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A GENERAL THEORY OF CORRELATIVITY
This dissertation develops a comprehensive theory of correlative constructions in ancient Indo-European languages, challenging the traditional view that correlatives are a subtype of relative clauses. Focusing on Vedic Sanskrit, Old and Young Avestan, Old Persian, Hittite, and Homeric Greek, the …
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Verbal Complementation in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic : An LFG account
… and analysed within the principles of LFG syntactic theory, and represented in a grammar fragment implemented using the XLE tool. The analysis shows that both tense and aspect can be expressed verbs in ECA, where in simple tense forms the verb carries tense only, while in compound tense, …
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Syntax and Prosody of Coordination
This thesis investigates the syntactic and prosodic properties of what I call correlative coordination; coordination where each junct (i.e., conjunct or disjunct) has an overt coordinator (e.g., either…or…). I argue that the coordinators are focus-sensitive operators, and each coordinator has two …