English main-clause wh-questions form complementiser phrases with wh-words preposed to spec-C position. This is because English wh-words, as verb-complements originally, are strong enough to trigger wh-movement and auxiliary inversion. Persian EFL learners encounter an over-differentiation problem regarding the acquisition of auxiliary inversion rule in English standard questions. Once they hav...

Over the years the nominal construction with marked modifiers in Mandarin Chinese, the so-called de construction, has been one of the most studied topics within the literature of Chinese linguistics. Due to its complicated properties and distributions, a satisfactory account has not yet been achieved that covers all the phenomena observed. In particular, the categorial status of de remains rath...

The aim of this paper is to explain the syntax yes/no questions in Ẹ̀dó language. In line with its aim, answers two research questions. First, what structure questions? Second, how derived? study relies on primary data from a questionnaire survey and observation language use, as well secondary textual corpus. corpus shows forms polar ways: use prosody five question markers. This confirms positio...

In this paper I argue in favour of a collocation extraction approach to the acquisition of relational nouns in German. We annotated frequency-based best lists of nounpreposition bigrams and subsequently trained different classifiers using (combinations of) association metrics, achieving a maximum Fmeasure of 69.7 on a support vector machine (Platt, 1998). Trading precision for recall, we could ...