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The Relative Marker and Long Distance Dependencies in the L2 Acquisition of Swahili Relative Clauses
Of the several African languages that have become regularly offered at U.S. colleges and universities, Swahili consistently garners the highest enrollments, and is the second most widely taught after Arabic, with the greatest variety of instructional materials compared to its Sub-Saharan African counterparts. According to the Modern Language Association, the number of Swahili-language learners ...
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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...
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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...
متن کاملAppositive Relative Clauses
The difference between restrictive and appositive relativization is usually represented in syntax as complementation versus adjunction with respect to the antecedent noun. Instead I propose that an appositive relative clause (ARC) is coordinated with its antecedent. This approach avoids problems that come with the adjunction analysis, and it predicts some interesting facts. First consider the s...
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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...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nordic Atlas of Language Structures Journal
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2387-2667
DOI: 10.5617/nals.5420