Interpreting St. Clair's Comanche Texts: Objective Case Marking and 'Same Subject' Dependent Clauses

Case Marking and Subject Extraction in Danish1

Producing and Interpreting Debug Texts

Interpreting Japanese Head-Internal Relative Clauses

Japanese has both head-external and head-internal relative clauses (HERC & HIRC). Example (1a) shows a standard HERC. In contrast, the HIRC in (1b) has the form of an independent sentence, the bold-faced head occurring inside the relative, and it is followed by the complementizer -no and a case morpheme that relates the internal head to the matrix verb. A core question is what the interpretatio...

Relative clauses in French children's narrative texts.

This study investigates the use of relative clauses in French children's narrative monologues. Narrative texts were collected from French-speaking monolinguals in four age groups (five, seven, ten years and adults). Twenty subjects from each group were asked to tell a story based on a picture book consisting of twenty-four images without text (Frog, Where are you?). Relative constructions were ...

Genitive Subject Licensing in Uyghur Subordinate Clauses

In this paper, we analyze certain embedded clauses in Uyghur, a Turkic language spoken in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. We argue i) that genitive case on the subjects of these clauses is licensed by agreement with a clause-external head, and ii) that these clauses are full CPs. Putting these two claims together, we have evidence that Uyghur exhibits agreement and case-assignme...