NON-LOGICAL IF-CLAUSES IN ENGLISH

Polymorphism in English Logical Grammar

The quantifiers and connectives of English present difficulties to standard (Church-style) type theory in linguistics in that they can apply systematically to objects of different form. This paper sketches solutions to this problem with some extensions to the simply typed lambda calculus, including Damas-Milner types and System F or the polymorphic lambda calculus. The goal is to maintain the “...

Processing of English Relative Clauses by Adult

The processing complexity of English relative clauses

Sentences that contain non-local dependencies between words have long been known to cause comprehension difficulty, relative to sentences where all the dependencies are local. Relative clause (RC) structures have been used extensively to evaluate hypotheses about the source of these complexity effects because different word order configurations can be compared while keeping the words the same a...

Learning of relative clauses by L3 learners of English

In surveys of third language acquisition (TLA) research, mixed results demonstrate that there is no consensus among researchers regarding the advantages and/or disadvantages of bilinguality on  TLA.  The  main  concern  of  the  present  study  was,  thus,  to  probe  the  probable  differences between  Persian  monolingual  and  Azeri-Persian  bilingual  learners  of  English  regarding  their...

Complementiser Phrase: The Case of English Wh-Embedded Clauses

English main-clause wh-questions form complementiser phrases with wh-words preposed to spec-C position. This is because English wh-words, as verb-complements originally, are strong enough to trigger wh-movement and auxiliary inversion. Persian EFL learners encounter an over-differentiation problem regarding the acquisition of auxiliary inversion rule in English standard questions. Once they hav...