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Different Antecedent–Relative Clause Relations
In this chapter we spell out the semantic implications of the point that the antecedent of restrictive relative clauses is the nominal head plus...
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Prosodic Patterns in the Four Existential Constructions with Relative Clause
This chapter looks for prosodic distinctive properties and tendencies of the four constructions. Existentials with non-restrictive relative clause...
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Structural Assemblies and Semantics of the Four Existential Constructions with Relative Clause
This chapter analyses the structural assemblies and semantics of the four existential constructions with relative clause. A simple existential clause...
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Determiners of Existent NPs in the Four Existential Constructions with Relative Clause
This chapter examines how the meaning of the four existential constructions with relative clause impacts on the determiner structure of their...
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Clause and Clause Complex
Regarding the definition of sentence in the grammatical analysis of Chinese, many people have held divergent views for a long time. In China, a...
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Quantifier Raising out of Mandarin relative clauses
Quantifier Raising usually exhibits finite-clause boundedness due to the syntactic and semantic constraints it is subject to (Fox
1995 ,2000 ,...
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Integrated non-restrictive relative clauses in Shupamem
This article investigates the structural and interpretative properties of relative clauses in Shupamem, an under-studied Grassfields Bantu language...
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Paradigms of Relative Markers
This chapter is concerned with the paradigms of relative markers found in English in restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses and relative...
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Word order in heritage Russian: clause type and majority language matter
Heritage speakers (HSs) are known to differ from monolingual speakers in various linguistic domains. The present study focuses on the syntactic...
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Type-shifting in headless relative clauses
Research on the (in)definiteness of bare nouns has developed various proposals regarding which type-shifters exist in human language and which...
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Facework in Patient Requests for Treatment Recommendations in Korean Medical Interactions: The Use of Main Clause Omission
This studyMedical interaction examined the involvementMain clause omission of faceworkFacework in main clause omissions employed by patients when...
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Linking Comprehension and Production: Frequency Distribution of Chinese Relative Clauses in the Sinica Treebank
This chapter presents the distribution of Chinese relative clauses in the Sinica Treebank (Chen et al., Sinica corpus: Design methodology for...
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Eventive modal projection: the case of Spanish subjunctive relative clauses
How do modal expressions determine which possibilities they range over? According to the Modal Anchor Hypothesis (Kratzer in The language-cognition...
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*Shknowing: Constraints on the Semantics of Clause-Embedding Predicates
In the previous chapters, I have motivated the question-oriented theory for clause-embedding predicates based on a range of empirical facts....
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Control theory and the relationship between logophoric pronouns and logophoric uses of anaphors
Long distance (or “exempt”) uses of anaphors in Eurasian languages are often compared to the special logophoric pronouns found in certain West...
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The lexical semantics of finite control: A view from Japanese
In this paper, we propose a semantic analysis of control verbs in Japanese that take finite clauses marked by the nominalizer koto . We argue for an...
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Domains of ordering
This paper develops a theory of linearization in which the LCA (Kayne, The antisymmetry of syntax, MIT Press, 1994) linearizes one portion of the...
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Personal-evaluation secondary predicates in Japanese and quirky experiencer raising
Adjectives in Japanese that describe personal evaluation of their theme argument like omosiroi ‘interesting’ and oisii ‘tasty’ can occur as secondary...
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Introduction
Reference works on English tend to recognize only clefts introduced by it + be, which are viewed as focus marking constructions, with an assumption...
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Conclusion
The mainstream equates clefts in English with it-clefts and holds that their grammar non-compositionally codes focus marking. In the previous...