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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"clausal"”.
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Clausal nominalization in Wolof
Wolof uses various strategies to express clausal nominalization i.e. genitive nominalization (GN), relative clause nominalization (RC nominalization) and headless relative clause nominalization. This dissertation provides a description of these nominalization processes with a special focus on GNs …
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Varieties of clausal complementation
This thesis argues that clausal arguments of mental-state predicates divide into two main types: those that express the content, or "subject matter" of the mental state, and those that express the cause of the mental state. My central theoretical claim is that this dichotomy corresponds to a …
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Using term ordering to control clausal deduction
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Topics in Turkish syntax : clausal structure and scope
This dissertation asks two main questions for Turkish: (i) what is the interaction between verbal morphology and the structure?, and (ii) what is the interaction between word order and interpretation? Following Kornfilt (1996) I argue that there are two verbal forms in finite structures: one …
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Oceanic languages: A comparative investigation of pre-clausal constructions
This thesis presents an investigation of pre-clausal phenomena in the lesser-studied languages of the Oceanic language family. The study is innovative in that the pre-clausal structure of interest, hereinafter labelled as a PRE construction, is analysed in its entirety, and found to exhibit …
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Subjects and the clausal structure of Chinese and English
… consequences, most fundamentally in the clausal structure of the two languages. The principles and parameters framework developed in Chomsky 1981 and Chomsky 1986a,b and pursued in the works of a number of other linguists provides the overall theoretical orientation.
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Dimensions of symmetry in syntax : agreement and clausal architecture
(cont.) are, then, determined at phase levels by late insertion of categorial features. One crucial aspect of the proposed theory of structural symmetry involves interweaving effects, which emerge as categorial determination of different sizes and types. The present thesis discusses three such …
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Acquisition of the T and C system in clausal complements
In order to discover how children acquire the T(ense) and C(omplementizer) system, finite and nonfinite embedded clauses produced by children in the CHILDES database were studied. It was discovered that young children often delete to in nonfinite embedded clauses, and that they use that in the C …
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Machine translation through clausal syntax : a statistical approach for Chinese to English
… using a discriminative feature based model. Clausal arguments, such as subject and object, are translated separately using an off-the-shelf phrase-based translator. By explicitly modeling syntax at a clausal level, but using a phrase-based (flat-sentence) method on local, reduced expressions, …
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Syntax at the edge: cross-clausal phenomena and the syntax of passamaquoddy
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2001.
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A System for Natural Language Unmarked Clausal Transformations in Text-to-Text Applications
A system is proposed which separates clauses from complex sentences into simpler stand-alone sentences. This is useful as an initial step on raw text, where the resulting processed text may be fed into text-to-text applications such as Automatic Summarization, Question Answering, and Machine …
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Predication in non-clausal domains: a configurational approach to Sanskrit bahuvrīhi compounds and their Italian equivalents
In the present thesis I offer a unified solution for the following two apparently unrelated puzzles: i. why is the internal order of Sanskrit bahuvrīhis with a nominal/ adjectival qualifier determined by the dependency holding between the bahuvrīhi’s external referent and one of the …
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Constraints on Clausal Complex Noun Phrases in Korean With Focus on the Gapless Relative Clause Construction
… and semantic properties of other subtypes of clausal complex noun phrases. The relative clause construction has three subtypes: argument gap relative clause construction, adjunct gap relative clause construction and the gapless relative clause construction; the noun complement clause …
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Temporal implicatures
… inferences that are not attested in their clausal uses. This lead Tonhauser (2006, 2007, 2011b) to argue that the nominal uses of -kue and -rã are not tenses, and that Paraguayan Guarani is a tenseless language. I challenge both of these claims in Mbyá. After presenting a descriptive …
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Word Order, Focus, and Clause Linking in Greek Tragic Poetry
… start of the clause, and the structure of inter-clausal linking. It is argued that these three features, usually considered separately, are interdependent, and that intra-clausal word order is directly related to the structure of compound and complex sentences. The discussion undertakes a …
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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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Infinitives
… infinitives are represented uniformly by a clausal (CP) structure. It is argued that control infinitives of a certain well-defined class are best analyzed as simple VP-complements that do not involve an embedded subject. The structure of VP-infinitives is motivated by five sets of properties …
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Clause chaining, switch reference and coordination
… as clause chaining is actually asymmetric clausal coordination. The special properties that seem to distinguish clause chaining from asymmetric clausal coordination are argued to fall out from the structure of the clause in Kisedje. I further propose that the same type of structure is found …
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Motivaciones comunicativas para la expresión de sujeto en secuencias clausales correferenciales en español
… in the second clause of a co-referential clausal sequence. Specifically, it is proposed that that subject expression, in this environment, is a discourse strategy for the use of the meanings of the personal pronouns and nominal phrases available for the speaker’s communicative purposes, …
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