in this paper, we examine the treatment of persian relative clauses in role and reference grammar. rrg is a structural-functional theory which has studied the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface in human language systems. the main objectives of this article, on the one hand, are to elucidate syntactic, semantic and pragmatic properties of farsi relative clauses, and on the other hand, to asse...

The present study examines the relative order of noun-adjective sequences within code-switched Determiner Phrases. Several hypotheses have been considered: (i) Order is a property defined by noun; (ii) it adjective; (iii) governed carrier phrase. studies that investigated issue all assume class adjectives homogeneous, but in fact, there exist several sub-classes which many languages, including ...

This paper concerns one aspect of work in progress on a PhD thesis on the complementation of nouns in English (See Bowen (forthcoming)). The purpose of the thesis is to give a description of nouns and their complements which will prove of interest to linguists but will also be of interest, from a pedagogical point of view, to learners of English. Although there are extensive surveys of the noun...

Public data, contributed by citizens, stakeholders and other potentially affected parties, are becoming increasingly used to collect the shared ideas of a wider community. Having collected large quantities text data from public consultation, challenge is often how interpret dataset without resorting lengthy time-consuming manual analysis. One approach gaining ground use Natural Language Process...

Clause and phrase construction is one of the essential components needs to be mastered by English students in order support their writing. However, this problem that still encounter. The purposes study are figure out students’ difficulties causes reducing adjective clauses into participial phrases. 30 were selected using cluster random sampling technique from a population 162 second-year Depart...

Learners’ dictionaries are often intended to assist students with distinct proficiency levels. However, few studies have shown how different users were compared. This paper aimed compare and contrast adjective clauses in -er suffix occupation definitions two online dictionaries. Data, consisting of 33 words the -er, such as ‘barber’ ‘waiter’, collected from Longman Dictionary Contemporary Engli...

This study examined structural priming during online second language (L2) comprehension. In two self-paced reading experiments, 64 intermediate to advanced Chinese learners of English as a foreign read coordinated noun phrases where the conjuncts had either same structure or different structures. Experiment 1 showed that conjunct was faster when it first. effect occurred for structurally marked...

MF-$0.65 HC-$3.29 *Form Classes (Languages) ; *Nominals; *Paired Associate Learning; *Recall (Psychological); Sentence structure; Structural Analysis; *Structural Grammar Second and sixth graders were asked to learn noun pairs linked by various types of verbal connectives: Verbs, unmarked and marked comparative adjectives, polar antonym adjective pairs, and Conjunctions. Results indicated that ...

This paper proposes a novel method to extract paraphrases of Japanese noun phrases from a set of documents. The proposed method consists of three steps: (1) retrieving passages using character-based index terms given a noun phrase as an input query, (2) filtering the retrieved passages with syntactic and semantic constraints, and (3) ranking the passages and reformatting them into grammatical f...