The article focuses on the factors that cause linear and vertical sentence extension of multiple complex-compound sentences used in English fictional literature. Considering the sentence structure as a combination of 2 Units – paratactic and hypotactic the authors define the structural peculiarities of paratactic and hypotactic units including the number of clauses and its bonds. The extension ...

To better understand the ordering of clause aggregation operators in a text generation application, we manually annotated a small corpus. The annotated corpus supports the preferred ordering of transformations that result in shorter surface expressions, such as adjectives over relative clauses. In addition, we were able to explain why paratactic operators are applied before and after hypotactic...

This paper addresses the grammatical challenges associated with development of clause complexity, focusing on performance a group monolingual Spanish-speaking schoolchildren Specific Language Impairment/Developmental Disorder (SLI/DLD) in longitudinal corpus oral narrative samples. The study examines presence interclause relations subordination and equivalence (hypotaxis parataxis) language sam...

This paper is focused on description of hy­ potactic constructions (constructions with sub­ ordinating conjunctions) with “elaborative” meanings. In dependency­based linguistic lit­ erature, they are referred to as hypotactic co­ ordinations or also (a subset of) false depen­ dent clauses. The analysis makes use of syn­ tax­ and discourse­annotated corpora of Czech and English and thus offers a...

This article describes the generation of aggregated and elliptic sentences, using Dependency Trees connected by rhetorical relations as input. The system we have developed can generate both hypotactic and paratactic constructions with appropriate cue words, and various forms of ellipsis such as Gapping and Conjunction Reduction. We contend that Dependency Trees connected by rhetorical relations...

In an attempt to dispel the persisting fallacy that an individual’s grammar knowledge is indicative of the way they put this knowledge into practice, this study seeks to highlight the inconsistency which resides between one’s competence and performance in the domain of conjunctions. It aims to shed light on the discrepancy which lies between the knowledge and production of conjunctions. The res...

This paper discusses verb-first conditionals (Had I known this, I would have stayed at home) with regard to the hypothesis that the construction developed from a dialogual sequence into a hypotactic structure. While plausible, independent evidence for this scenario has been scarce. An alternative account posits that questions could have been analogized with existing conditional clause types, ma...