Welsh noun phrases have had much less attention than clauses, and there are unresolved issues about the nature of possessors, attributive adjectives, definite article agreement clitics. There is evidence, especially from agreement, that possessors complements, evidence adjectives adjoined to a preceding [LEX+] nominal constituent, clitics specifiers. The last these positions makes it fairly sim...

Taking up an early observation by Y.-H. Audrey Li (1985) stating the systematic lack of Chinese equivalents for English small clauses (SC) with nominal predicates (They elected John president), this article demonstrates that lacks SCs altogether. This holds independently approach adopted, be it analysis as lexical projections different category labels (cf. Stowell 198...

This paper studies the noun phrase structure of Paiwan demonstratives by examining in detail the typology of demonstratives, possessives and numerals in Formosan languages. Four main issues are addressed: in Formosan languages (A) whether the word order variation in nominals may be best accounted for along the lines of the antisymmetry condition in Kayne (1994); (B) whether demonstratives, poss...

Kamsá is a language isolate spoken in the Sibundoy Valley Putumayo department of southern Colombia. Its speech community lives on eastern slopes Andes Mountains, between linguistic areas and Amazon. This paper presents various grammatical features Kamsá, including its phonology, nominal morphology (especially noun class case marking), verbal person/number marking for core arguments evidentialit...

It is widely accepted that the split between restrictive and nonrestrictive relatives generally coincides with their asymmetric contribution to discourse: restrictive relatives contribute content that is part of the main assertion of the sentence, while nonrestrictive relatives contribute content that is backgrounded or supplementary to the content of the main clause. Recent studies (Huddleston...

In his recent article Deutscher (2009: 199) suggests that “nominalization is an unsung hero in the story of subordination”. He goes on to say that “[t]he ability to derive a noun from a verb, that is, to reify a verbal predicate and present it as a nominal argument or modifier, is the core of subordination”. While Deutscher (2009) believes that the relevant nominalization for his study is “deri...

This paper argues that Old Japanese (eighth century) had split alignment, with nominative-accusative alignment in main clauses and active alignment in nominalized clauses. The main arguments for active alignment in nominalized clause come from ga-marking of active subjects and the distribution oftwo verbal prefixes: /-for active predicates and safor inactive predicates (cf. Yanagida, In: Hasega...

Abstract Finnish nonfinite clauses constitute a complex grammatical class with seemingly chaotic mix of verbal and nominal properties. Thirteen constructions, their selection, control, thematic role assignment, agreement, embedded subjects, syntactic status were targeted for analysis. An analysis is proposed which derives semantic properties by relying on computational model human information p...

This paper presents results from a self-paced reading experiment in Japanese investigating attachment preferences for relative clauses to three ensuing potential nominal heads. Similar to previous results from the processing of English, Spanish and German, we observed the following non-monotonic preference ordering among the three attachment sites: most local, least local, intermediate. We disc...

Here the man is a definite nominal antecedent, who a relative pronoun (referring to the antecedent), and who is wearing a red jacket a restrictive relative clause, where the relative pronoun plays the role of the subject. However, cross-linguistically – but also language-internally – there are many types of relative clauses. In this article I intend to discuss the range of possibilities and pre...