Adjuncts and relative clauses are traditionally classified as strong islands for extraction across languages. However, the Mainland Scandinavian (MSc.) languages have been reported to differ from e.g., English in allowing adjunct clauses. In order investigate distribution of possible island extractions these based on naturally produced material, we conducted two exploratory corpus studies claus...

ii Acknowledgements I would like to thank my adviser Prof. Tishby for his guidance and assistance in producing this work, and for his suggestions and positive input. I would also like to thank Beata Beigman Klebanov for her constant help and advice throughout this work, including (but definitely not limited to) the contribution of the parsed data used here. Also deserving of thanks are my famil...

Relative clauses containing subject relative-pronouns are the prevalent type both across languages and in conversation, accounting for 65% of relative clauses in the American National Corpus (Reali and Christiansen 2007). This fact appears attributable to processing constraints, as per Hawkins 1999, 2004: subject extractions are the most local filler-gap dependency and therefore impose the leas...

An algorithm for automatic identification of topic and focus of the sentence is presented, based on dependency syntax and using written input, which is much more ambiguous than spoken utterance. 1. The dichotomy of topic and focus, based, in the Praguean Functional Generative Description, on the scale of communicative dynamism (underlying word order), is relevant not only for a possible placeme...

The financial crisis that hit the Eurozone in 2010 drove a number of its members request assistance from their EU partners. reaction to these requests at European level came coordination with IMF, but not necessarily uniform manner. This article compares adjustment programmes Ireland and Cyprus. Despite similarity on independent variable (local economic conditions), design Irish Cypriot (the de...