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What is the position of 'that' in the relative clause of this sentence?
Researchers report they have engineered an enzyme that can convert 90% of that same plastic back to its pristine starting materials.
Does that originate in spec TP and move to spec CP like in this ...
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Compositional Semantics of relative clauses
How do relative pronouns (which, who, invisible which= WH) fit into a sentences compositionality? Given that relative clauses modify Noun Phrases, I'd expect them to be of type <et,<et>> ...
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What is the syntactic status of subordinate clauses such as "what can be..."?
I am not clear about the syntactic analysis of the what-clauses in bold in the following b-sentences:
(1a) These words are weak determiners.
(1b) These words are what can be called weak determiners.
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Does the relative clause (which suggests...) here function as an adjunct of the whole clause in front of it?
The high notes returned to his compositions towards the end of his life, which suggests he was hearing the works that were taking shape in his imagination.
I'm not sure how to write up the syntax ...
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Having trouble drawing a tree diagram [closed]
I'm having trouble drawing a tree diagram for the following sentence:
Chrissy believed that the earrings she bought for Sue were real silver.
In the task we have to divide the sentence into its ...
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