The goal of this study was to determine whether bilingual children with specific language impairment (SLI) are similar to monolingual age mates with SLI, in each language. Eight French-English bilingual children with SLI were compared to age-matched monolingual children with SLI, both English and French speaking, with respect to their use of morphosyntax in language production. Specifically, us...

Although many formalisms have been developed for reasoning about normative behaviour, most of these have been somewhat divorced from real systems. That is, while they allow the specification of what is obligatory or permissible, there is often no direct mapping to concrete computational systems, and so no way of really being able to tell (for example) whether a system respects or violates some ...

Khutbah is one the stipulated condition that distinguish Jumucah prayer from other obligatory five ritual daily prayers. By time Islam spread to what now known as Nigeria, used be rendered in Arabic without any attempt translate it local language. However, with passage of population Muslims continues increase. As a result that, there are agitations and counter-agitation on need either khutbah i...

In this thesis I develop a syntactic representation of control that is PRO-free. I implement a mechanism of theta-role assignment that uses theta-role percolation (Neeleman and Van de Koot (2002)), which enables the apparent subject properties of controlled infinitives to be reinterpreted as properties associated with an external theta-role, rather than a subject. I first analyse Obligatory Con...