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Does a subordinating conjunction necessarily introduce a subordinate clause?
All of the examples you cite indeed contain subordinate clauses, but in general a subordinating conjunction does not necessarily introduce a subordinate clause. In numerous languages of the world, ...
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What part of speech is the word "that" in "That you be happy!"
Your phrase is a fragment (not a sentence). It might occur as the answer to a question ("What do you want?"). 'That' is a complementizer -- it makes 'you be happy' the complement of 'what'. This is ...
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What is the difference between a subordinate clause and an embedded clause?
What Lehmann is talking about is Hale's famous 1976 paper about the adjoined relative clause in Australia. It discusses (subordinate) relative clauses not being embedded, which spawned the opinion ...
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"in relation to which" - what type of subordinated clause and is this conjunction somehow distinct?
It is a relative clause. A plot of land is acting as the lexical head of the RC, and in relation to was 'moved' to before the relative pronoun (not conjunction) which through the process of pied ...
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Subordination. Chinese vs English
Just keep spamming 的-clauses. To use your example:
我认识一个[有狗的]人。
我认识一个[有[向猫吠的]狗的]人。
我认识一个[有[向[在屋子里的]猫吠的]狗的]人。
我认识一个[有[向[在[[...的]城市的]屋子里的]猫吠的]狗的]人。
My own judgement is that the longer sentences don'...
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Is it possible that whole relative clause refers/describes one word/phrase in the main clause (without anaphora)?
No, anaphora is always involved in a relative clause construction, because relative clauses have relative pronouns (not necessarily explicit), and relative pronouns are anaphoric. The "which" of your ...
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Formal semantics of subordinate clauses (compound sentences) - in categorial and type logical grammars?
As I recall (I haven't gone back to McCawley's books to check this), McCawley treats subordinate clauses like prepositional phrases whose objects are sentences, and prepositions as predicates with ...
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Does a subordinating conjunction necessarily introduce a subordinate clause?
In his The Syntactic Phenomena of English, McCawley discusses this problem of identifying subordinate clauses. He suggests testing whether a construction allows for the extraction of a constituent ...
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Are there languages with discontinued subordinate clauses?
This sort of behavior certainly occurs in some languages. Here's an example from Meskwaki where a relative clause is interspersed with the matrix clause:
iiniyeeka [peeminehkawaatshiki ashaahaki ...
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Are clauses such as "¡Que le vaya bien!" in Spanish subordinate?
I haven't found a specific grammatical term or label for this usage, but all online resources that deal with the Spanish subjunctive explain it in the same terms as proposed in the question, i. e. ...
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Clause analysis for causative verbs
First of all,
The kind of woman that makes people remember Marilyn Monroe.
is not a sentence; it's a noun phrase. As Tom Robbins once put it, This sentence no verb.
If it occurs in a corpus, its ...
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Are adjective complement clauses considered to be adverbial?
I think your i)-iii) are adverbs, but I don't agree about what they modify. I don't know about iv).
In i), it is the event of the man leaping, described by a sentence, which is modified by being ...
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