Than clauses as embedded questions

Extractions from Relative Clauses in Swedish as Self-answering Questions

This restriction on RCs has been regarded as an instantiation of the so called Complex NP Constraint (henceforth: CNPC) which was originally introduced by Ross (1967). According to this constraint, no internal material must be extracted out of a DP . By DP internal material, one commonly assumes attributes or subparts of attributes. DPs, therefore, are islands for movement. Regarding RCs as tru...

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...

Parsing Embedded Clauses with Distributed Neural Networks

A distributed neural network model called SPEC for processing sentences with recursive relative clauses is described. The model is based on separating the tasks of segmenting the input word sequence into clauses, forming the case-role representations, and keeping track of the recursive embeddings into different modules. The system needs to be trained only with the basic sentence constructs, and...

Embedded clauses and recursive prosodic phrasing in Akan

This study investigates the interaction of lexical tone and intonation in embedded clauses in the two-tone Kwa language Akan. The claim is that embedded clauses show recursive prosodic phrasing at the level of intonation phrases (ι-phrase). The prosodic boundary of an embedded clause is expressed by means of a pitch register reset. At the boundary, lexical tonal distinctions are maintained in t...

Order and Structure in Embedded Clauses in Northern Norwegian