Conjunctions and clause linkage in Australian languages

On Non-Canonical Clause Linkage

The present paper investigates a certain subset of clause linkage phenomena and develops a constraint-based account to the empirical fact that clauses need to be distinguished w.r.t their degree of integratedness into a potential matrix clause. Considering as example German, it is shown that the generally assumed twofold distinction between main and subordinate clauses (or root and embedded cla...

Morphological Reconstruction and Australian Languages

Recent developments in the RRG theory of clause linkage

Optimizing Clause Matching Automata in Committed-choice Languages

We introduce a formalism for clause matching in concurrent committed-choice languages based on the construction of clause matching automata, a heuristic for the compilation of clause matching, and a technique for more eecient implementation of matches. The formalism is notable for its generality and simplicity, the heuristic for combining important advantages of several existing heuristics. The...

efl students gender and socioeconomic status: the use of politeness strategies in the first and second languages

within the components of communicative competence, a special emphasis is put on the “rules of politeness,” specifically the politeness strategies (brown and levinson, 1978) that speakers deploy when performing the request speech act. this is because the degree of imposition that making a request places upon one’s interlocutor(s) has been seen to be influenced by several factors among which, as ...