Topic extraction from adverbial clauses

Tense in Adjuncts Part 2: Temporal Adverbial Clauses

1. RECAPITULATION Part I of this article treats tense in relative clauses (RCs) in English, Russian and Japanese. The temporal centre in RCs can always be Tproi, and sometimes it has to be Tproi. 1. In SOT languages such as English, the Tense in the RC is bound in RC\wollconfigurations, i.e., we find a Tproi bound by woll. The licensing of the morphological tense in the RC is non-local in these...

The Status Change of Japanese Temporal Adverbial Clauses in SLA

Adverbial clauses and speaker and interlocutor gender in Shakespeare’s plays

This study draws on previous findings regarding adverbial clauses in relation to speaker and interlocutor gender in a corpus of current actual speaker data. Our aim is to examine those same relations in a corpus of Shakespeare’s comedies and histories. Mondorf (2004) investigated four types of adverbial clauses in a corpus of modern speech and found that the women used more causal, conditional ...

Diverse Topic Phrase Extraction from Text Collection

Keyword extraction is an efficient approach to managing an explosion of online text on the Web. Traditionally, an abstraction of the online text is constructed though keywords, which are extracted according to a certain importance measure. One such measure is their occurrence frequency. However, previous work has not considered another important factor: the diversity of the keywords. Therefore,...

Extraction from relative and embedded interrogative clauses in Danish

In Danish relative clauses and embedded interrogative clauses are not extraction islands. However, there is an asymmetry between the two clauses. In Danish it is possible to extract the subject out of an embedded interrogative clause. Extraction of the subject out of a relative clause, on the other hand, is not allowed. In this paper we present a formal HPSG analysis of extraction in Danish whi...