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Yoruba purpose clauses
Is there anyone who knows how are made purpose clauses of Yoruba? I know that in typological literature they are classified as balanced (= the verb form of the purpose clause may also occur in a main ...
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Subject control or object control?
In the recent paper “Universal Dependencies” by de Larneffe, Manning, Nivre and Zeman, published in Computational Linguistics in 2021, page 277 the following example is given:
and it is said that ...
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Do all languages have the subordinate clause next to the conjunction?
There are example languages for almost all the possible orderings of subject, verb and object in a simple sentence, with the order of frequency being:
SOV > SVO > VSO > VOS > OVS > OSV.
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Subordination. Chinese vs English
Linguists claim that subordination is universal across the world languages.
Subordination in English looks can be understood by looking into these examples:
I know a person who has a dog
I know a ...
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Why would "But" function as its own clause in Hunt's (1965) T-unit and clause system?
I am learning about Hunt's (1965) system of parsing writing into T-units (minimal terminable units) and clauses. In this system, a T-unit is "one main clause with all the subordinate clauses attached ...
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Formal semantics (Montague, type-theoretical) of noun clauses
Partee has nice summary about the formal semantics of relative clause http://people.umass.edu/partee/MGU_2005/MGU05Lec10.pdf (subordinate adjectival clause). E.g.
At least one boy who Mary loves is ...
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Is it possible that whole relative clause refers/describes one word/phrase in the main clause (without anaphora)?
My running example is the sentence (from the VAT law of one country):
The building land is the plot in relation to which the building permit has been issued.
There are possible at least two views on ...
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"in relation to which" - what type of subordinated clause and is this conjunction somehow distinct?
I am trying to analyse the sentence:
Building land is a plot of land in relation to which a construction permit has been issued.
and my question is - what type of subordinated clause is introduced ...
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Are there languages that don't allow sub-clauses?
In the Language Construction Kit 2, the author makes the assertion that sub-clauses, in particular center-embedded clauses, add complexity. That is obviously true, but he claims that you can make do ...
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Formal semantics of subordinate clauses (compound sentences) - in categorial and type logical grammars?
I am trying to apply combinatory categorial grammars and type logical grammars (Montague semantics etc.) to the compound sentences and the subordinate clauses. Are there efforts to develop those ...
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What part of speech is the word "that" in "That you be happy!"
In the exclamation That you be happy! what part of speech is the word that? Is it a conjunction via ellipsis, i.e. "(I wish) that you be happy!" If yes, then does this poke a hole in the idea that ...
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Does a subordinating conjunction necessarily introduce a subordinate clause?
I would like to clear up some longstanding confusion of mine on subordinate clauses, especially since it is a rather simple grammatical topic and it is about time that I learn it.
Which of the ...
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Are there languages with discontinued subordinate clauses?
As for the languages I know I think to believe, that a subordinated clause comes in a chunk and not scattered throughout the main clause.
For instance:
I LIKE TO SING, while i slave away
while I ...
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Are clauses such as "¡Que le vaya bien!" in Spanish subordinate?
As far as I know, basically by definition, subordinate clauses must be embedded in a matrix clause. Therefore, if sentences of the type "¡Que le vaya bien!" are subordinate, where is the matrix clause?...
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Do nonfinite (adverbial) adjunct clauses have to be controlled?
Some examples of nonfinite adverbial clauses:
Susan left me [without having said goodbye]
[Being a trained boxer] Cathy always forces Mark to his knees with ease
[Green with envy] John ...
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Clause analysis for causative verbs
I am doing clause analysis for a corpus and am not sure how to determine the clauses for the following type of sentence:
The kind of woman that makes people remember Marylin Monroe.
I suppose it ...
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What is the difference between a subordinate clause and an embedded clause?
This article, http://www.christianlehmann.eu/publ/linkage.pdf , alluded to something called an adjoined clause, which is subordinate, but not embedded.
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Are adjective complement clauses considered to be adverbial?
One: In school, we are often told that an adverb can modify, not only a verb, but also an adjective. So we have ...
i) verb modifier: The man leaped suddenly.
ii) adjective modifier: Suddenly ...
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Are there any natural languages in the subordination of a clause is marked only in the matrix clause?
In English, and many other languages, subordination is often marked in the subordinate clause.
So complement clauses can, for example, begin with a complementizer such as English "that."
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