A Promotion Analysis of Wolof Relative Clauses

Relative Clauses

In this chapter, we examine the typology of relative clauses. We will define relative clauses as follows: (1) A relative clause (RC) is a subordinate clause which delimits the reference of an NP by specifying the role of the referent of that NP in the situation described by the RC. Since the NP whose reference is being delimited is in the matrix clause, we will call it NP mat , and we will call...

Learning of relative clauses by L3 learners of English

In surveys of third language acquisition (TLA) research, mixed results demonstrate that there is no consensus among researchers regarding the advantages and/or disadvantages of bilinguality on  TLA.  The  main  concern  of  the  present  study  was,  thus,  to  probe  the  probable  differences between  Persian  monolingual  and  Azeri-Persian  bilingual  learners  of  English  regarding  their...

Patterns of relative clauses

Here the man is a definite nominal antecedent, who a relative pronoun (referring to the antecedent), and who is wearing a red jacket a restrictive relative clause, where the relative pronoun plays the role of the subject. However, cross-linguistically – but also language-internally – there are many types of relative clauses. In this article I intend to discuss the range of possibilities and pre...

A Centering analysis of relative clauses in English and Greek

Adjoined Relative Clauses

In Bach and Cooper (1978) a semantics is proposed for adjoined relative clauses in Hittite and for the NP S analysis of English relatives within the general framework of Montague (1974). The aim of their analysis is to show that a potentially serious set of counterexamples to the compositionality thesis the thesis that the interpretation of a construction is a function of the interpretations of...