Bengali Conjunctive Participle Constructions

Prosodic Disambiguation of Participle Constructions in English

We report the results of one written and one auditory study that examined prosodic effects on resolving the ambiguity of participle constructions in English (e.g., Aaron followed a poor guy drinking his soda). These participle constructions behave similarly to the ambiguous prepositional phrases that can be attached to the verb phrase or to the immediately preceding noun. In the literature, the...

Participle-adjective Formation in Modern Greek

Constructions of Strict Left (Right)-Conjunctive Left (Right) Semi-Uninorms on a Complete Lattice

In this paper, we further investigate the constructions of fuzzy connectives on a complete lattice. We firstly illustrate the concepts of strict left (right)-conjunctive left (right) semi-uninorms by means of some examples. Then we give out the formulas for calculating the upper and lower approximation strict left (right)-conjunctive left (right) semi-uninorms of a binary operation.

Participle-Auxiliary Word Orders in Slavic

In recent analyses, attention has been drawn to Participle-Auxiliary orders in Slavic. Such constructions have been argued to involve Long Head Movement of the participle: that is, head movement which does not obey the Head Movement Constraint, and which is taken to be an instance of a Last-Resort syntactic operation. The phenomenon, which appears in a number of Slavic languages, is seen in (b)...

Negation patterns in Bengali

Negation is a challenging chapter in Bengali grammar which has so far attracted remarkably little attention. Bengali negation is complex: there are no negative pronouns and adverbs but there are negative verbs, and negation can be linked to tense. In this article I offer an overview of Bengali negation patterns as they exist in modern Standard Bengali, without going into great detail on etymolo...