This paper examines the syntactic properties of Serbian modal verb trebati ‘need’, which appears in environment ‘NP – ‘need’ finite da-clause’. I show that is a raising and preverbal NP (raised) subject. Trebati (φ-)agrees with only optionally, surprising since other verbs agree their subjects obligatorily. Furthermore, subject free to remain embedded clause, suggesting operation not triggered ...

Objectives: Studies have shown that most children before the age of 5 are capable to comprehend and express wh-questions in daily conversations. This study aimed at comparing the ability of wh-questions’ production in 4- to 6-year-old children in spontaneous and elicited conditions. Methods: In this descriptive-analytic study, 4- to 6-year-old Persian-speaking children (N = 72) were selected r...

Such WH-less WH-Questions (let us call them WLWQs) are very often used as questions in written tests or uttered by quizmasters in quizzes, though not often in daily conversations. 2 I assume that, despite their restriction in the range of registers, WLWQs are also constrained by the knowledge of human language. To my knowledge, there has been no previous research on WLWQs in the field. This pap...

GLUCOSE is based on a new scoring scheme for the clause learning mechanism, based on the paper [Audemard and Simon, 2009]. This short competition report summarizes the techniques embedded in the competition 09 version of GLUCOSE. Solver’s name comes from glue clauses, a particular kind of clauses that GLUCOSE detects and preserves during search. The web page for GLUCOSE is http://www.lri.fr/ ̃si...

GLUCOSE is based on a new scoring scheme for the clause learning mechanism, based on the paper [Audemard and Simon, 2009]. This short competition report summarizes the techniques embedded in the competition 09 version of GLUCOSE. Solver’s name comes from glue clauses, a particular kind of clauses that GLUCOSE detects and preserves during search. The web page for GLUCOSE is http://www.lri.fr/ ̃si...

The distribution of center self-embeddings and extrapositions in German is assumed to reflect a universal performance strategy of minimizing memory load during parsing. Self-embedded relative clauses of embedding depth 2 were semi-automatically analysed in a treebank of German newspaper texts. Clause length and especially extraposition distance are found as the main distinctive parameters betwe...

BACKGROUND: Application of plant mulches plays a significant role in development and expansion of sustainable farming systems. OBJECTIVES: Assessment effect of chemical and non-chemical weeds management methods on weeds density and biomass and the properties of soil, including microbial biomass carbon (MBC) and soil organic carbon (SOC) in potato cultivation. ...

In this paper I reanalyze the data provided in Barbiers (2018) on Dutch adverbs which occur an embedded (complement) clause while they semantically pertain to matrix (main) (or vice versa). Whereas analyzes adverb placement along lines of Cinque hierarchy (Cinque 1999), will propose analysis and explanation semantic does not need any movement, thereby stressing importance semantics pragmatics s...