Small Clauses and Default Case

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...

The comprehension of Relative Clauses within Movement-based hypothesis in L1 and L2: the Case of Tati and English

Incorporating Cognitive Linguistic Insights into Classrooms: the Case of Iranian Learners’ Acquisition of If-Clauses

Cognitive linguistics gives the most inclusive, consistent description of how language is organized, used and learned to date. Cognitive linguistics contains a great number of concepts that are useful to second language learners.  If-clauses in English, on the other hand, remain intriguing for foreign language learners to struggle with, due to their intrinsic intricacies. EFL grammar books are ...

Glueminisat 2.2.10 & 2.2.10-5

GLUEMINISAT 2.2.10 is a SAT solver based on MINISAT 2.2 and the LBD evaluation criteria of learned clauses. A new feature of 2.2.10 is an adaptive restart strategy based on literal block size. The default restart strategy is same as GLUCOSE, that is, the solver restarts when the average of LBDs for recent learned clauses becomes worse. When the average size of literal block is small, the solver...

Trigger Theory and the Acquisition of Complement Idioms

This paper focuses on one single phenomenon, namely the acquisition of idiomatic reading in subordinate clauses in Bernese Swiss German. We argue that the learning procedure in this case involves cross-modular triggering. The cross-modular character of acquiring the idiomatic reading in subordinate clauses is rooted in the fact that, inter alia, the child has to specify several features, namely...