At the moment there is no theory for free relative clauses in German in the framework of Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) (Pollard and Sag, 1994). From GB literature on the subject it is known that free relative clauses behave partly like noun phrases. They can fill argument positions of verbs. And although they are finite sentences, they are serialized like noun phrases in the Germa...

The aim of this article is to reopen the investigation ablative absolute in Latin and analyse construction its use from one angle, namely, coreferentiality rules. examples for analysis have been taken Gallic Wars. As has noticed before, several works, texts written by classical authors, such as Caesar or Cicero, allows us formulate a rule concerning coreferentiality. far syntactical concerned, ...

Children’s comprehension difficulties with object relative clauses (ORs) seem reduced when the embedded subject is a pronoun, rather than lexical noun. The intervention locality account explains this facilitation in terms of mismatch features between head OR and intervening pronominal subject, namely N feature according to some (Friedmann et al. 2009), or finer-grained phi others (Bentea & ...