LAMPUNG CLAUSE COMPLEXES: A PARATACTIC CONFIGURATION STUDY

Paratactic Semantics (d R a F T !)

A corpus study of clause combination

We present a corpus-based investigation of cases of clause combination that can be expressed both through coordination or with subordination. We analyse the data with a two-step computational model which first distinguishes subordination from coordination and then determines the direction for cases of subordination. We find that a wide range of features help with the prediction, notably frequen...

How Should We Revise the Paratactic Theory?

That is to say, the surface form of indirect speech is itself paratactic and requires only the insertion of a period (‘a tiny orthographic change ... without semantic significance’, as Davidson put it) to be made explicit. If SF is true, then the ‘that’ of ‘says that’ is, grammatically speaking, a demonstrative, and the utterance to which it refers is just the reporter’s utterance of the words ...

Clustered tuberculosis incidence in Bandar Lampung, Indonesia.

BACKGROUND The incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in the city of Bandar Lampung, Indonesia, increased during the period 2009-2011, although the cure rate for TB cases treated under the directly observed treatment, short course (DOTS) strategy in the city has been maintained at more than 85%. Cluster analysis is recognized as an interactive tool that can be used to identify the significance of spati...

The acquisition of complement clause constructions : A sentence repetition study

The presence of complement clause constructions in child speech marks the beginning of the child’s entrance into the more complex aspects of grammar. Since complement clauses are lexically-specified, individual complement taking verbs (CTVs) must be tagged with information about the kinds of complements they can license; their acquisition suggests that children are beginning to elaborate the ar...