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Intonation and clause combining in discourse Open
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Effective Inter-Clause Modeling for End-to-End Emotion-Cause Pair Extraction Open
Emotion-cause pair extraction aims to extract all emotion clauses coupled with their cause clauses from a given document. Previous work employs two-step approaches, in which the first step extracts emotion clauses and cause clauses separat…
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Multiple Level Hierarchical Network-Based Clause Selection for Emotion Cause Extraction Open
Emotion cause extraction is one of the most important applications in natural language processing tasks. It is a difficult challenge due to the complex semantic information between emotion description and the whole document. Previous appro…
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Adverbial clauses and adverbial concord Open
This paper speculates that the merge site of an adverbial clause, i.e. its external syntax, is determined by its derivational history, i.e. its internal syntax. Starting from the distinction between central adverbial clauses and peripheral…
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Non-finite chain-medial clauses on the continuum of finiteness in Purepecha Open
On the continuum of finiteness that can characterize clauses, Purepecha is one of the languages in which the predicates of both independent and dependent clauses are usually finite. Some non-finite dependent clauses have been observed. The…
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The Insubordination of If- and That-Clauses from Archaic to Post-Classical Greek: A Diachronic Constructional Typology Open
This paper provides the first systematic investigation of the role of insubordination, the diachronic conventionalization of formally subordinate clauses as main clauses, in the syntax and semantics of the Ancient Greek sentence. Since dia…
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Belief, Evidence, and Interactional Meaning in Urama Open
In Urama there are two clause-final particles, ka and ra, that encode a variety of both semantic and pragmatic meanings. While previous approaches have treated these particles as clause-type markers or evidential morphemes, this paper argu…
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Embedded finite complements, indexical shift, and binding in Tsez Open
This report documents grammatical patterns associated with Tsez finite clauses that combine with the quotative enclitic =ƛin. Based on the distributional properties of such finite clauses and their co-occurrence with different matrix verbs…
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Pauses Reflecting the Processing of Syntactic Units in Monolingual Text Production and Translation Open
This study explores how the process of translating relates to other types of writing processes by comparing pause lengths preceding syntactic units (words, phrases and clauses) in two types of writing task, a monolingual text production an…
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Externally and internally headed relative clauses in Marori Open
This paper discusses relative clauses (RCs) in Marori, showing that this language unusually has almost all of relative clause types, from headed/headless, externally/internally headed, single-/double-headed, to pre-/post-head, to attached/…
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The Chechen it-cleft construction Open
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Situation entity types: automatic classification of clause-level aspect Open
This paper describes the first robust approach to automatically labeling clauses with their situation entity type (Smith, 2003), capturing aspectual phenomena at the clause level which are relevant for interpreting both semantics at the cl…
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On the Cross-Linguistic Interpretation of Embedded Tenses Open
We propose a semantic analysis of cross-linguistic variation in the distribution and interpretation of tenses embedded in propositional attitude complements and temporal adjunct clauses in English, Japanese and Russian. We compare our anal…
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Discourse particles in early English: Clause structure, pragmatics and discourse management Open
This article presents a case study on the shifting interaction between clause structure, information structure and discourse organisation in the history of English, as evidenced by the development from Old to Middle English of what we will…
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Topics at the left edge of infinitive clauses in Spanish and Catalan Open
This paper deals with clitic left dislocation (CLLD) in infinitive clauses (IC) in Spanish and Catalan. The goal of this paper is twofold. First, I provide evidence that CLLDed constituents can target the left edge of ICs, contrary to prev…
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Past time reference in a language with optional tense Open
In this paper, I analyze the verbal suffix -uŋil in Washo as an optional past tense. It is optional in the sense that it is not part of a paradigm of tenses, and morphologically tenseless clauses are also compatible with past time referenc…
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The dual life of embedded CPs: Evidence from Russian čto-clauses Open
With the data from clauses with the complementizer čto in Russian, I argue that embedded finite clauses with the same morphosyntactic appearance can receive two different denotations depending on the argument that they modify. I show that …
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Noun complement clauses as referential modifiers Open
A number of recent analyses propose that so-called noun complement clauses should be analyzed as a type of relative clause. In this paper, I present a number of complications for any analysis that equates noun complement clauses to relativ…
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Insubordination in Archaic and Classical Latin: commands, requests, wishes and assertives Open
This paper analyzes subordinate clauses which have gained both syntactic and discursive independence through insubordination, the diachronic conventionalization of main clause usage. First, I introduce the notion of insubordination and dis…
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Internally-headed relative clauses in sign languages Open
This chapter considers relative clause data from sign languages in light of their variation with respect to basic word order, nonmanual marking, and presence/absence of internally-headed and externally-headed relative clauses. Syntacticall…
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Heterosemy of case markers and clause-linkers in Andaandi (Nile Nubian) Open
Case markers are usually associated with nouns or noun phrases but, as shown in Aikhenvald’s (2008) cross-linguistic study on “versatile cases”, case markers are also used as clause-linkers in a wide range of genetically diverse languages.…
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The nature and frequency of relative clauses in the language children hear and the language children read: A developmental cross-corpus analysis of English complex grammar Open
As written language contains more complex syntax than spoken language, exposure to written language provides opportunities for children to experience language input different from everyday speech. We investigated the distribution and natur…
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‘Pivotage’ in French talk-in-interaction Open
French talk-in-interaction shows a recurrent patterning of utterances that can schematically be presented as [clause-NP-clause], as in elle i va s’effacer l’image i elle i va s’effacer (‘it i is going to fade away the image ,i it i is goin…
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The syntax of comparison constructions in diachronic and dialectal perspective Open
The paper discusses the internal and external syntax of comparison constructions in the light of diachronic as well as dialectal German data. As far as the syntactic position of comparison particles is concerned, the data present evidence …
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Brain responses to syntax constrained by time-driven implicit prosodic phrases Open
Previous research suggests that time-based working memory limits of 2-3 s constrain the integration of verbal information, and that speakers tend to parse sentences into prosodic phrases that do not extend beyond this time window. The pres…
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Relative Clause and Downstep in Japanese Open
It has been proposed that Japanese downstep, in which the pitch register is lowered after an accented phrase, is sensitive to certain syntactic boundaries. In this paper, we investigate whether downstep is blocked at the relative clause bo…
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Quantificational variability and the genesis of English headed wh-relatives Open
English headed wh-relatives developed from Old English free hw-relatives, but many descriptive grammars associate free hw-relatives primarily with generalizing interpretations quite unlike the standard semantics for headed relatives. We de…
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Verb placement in clauses with initial adverbial maybe Open
The Scandinavian languages are generally verb second (V2) languages with the finite verb in the second position. However, there are certain exceptions to the V2 rule, and one of these involve main clauses with the adverb maybe in a clause-…
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When Restructuring and Clause Union Meet in Catalan and Beyond Open
This paper considers what happens when clause union meets restructuring by examining contexts where the causative FACERE verb takes a restructuring verb as its complement in Catalan, in comparison with French and Italian. We show that in C…
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KAJIAN KOHESI GRAMATIKAL SUBSTITUSI DAN ELIPSIS DALAM NOVEL “LASKAR PELANGI” KARYA ANDREA HIRATA Open
There are several factors that influence a literary work, especially the novel became a best seller beside the content of the story. One of them is the technique of writing. The purpose of this study is to describe and analyze the aspects …