Claiming a territory: Relative clauses in journal descriptions

Claiming your territory: discourse strategies in Japanese

The field of Japanese modality has received a large amount of attention over the past several decades. In particular, the class of works commonly known as sentence-final particles (SFPs) has been of interest to a wide range of researchers. However, despite years of work a consistent analysis of SFPs and related aspects of Japanese modality has yet to emerge. This problem is compounded further b...

Relative Clauses

In this chapter, we examine the typology of relative clauses. We will define relative clauses as follows: (1) A relative clause (RC) is a subordinate clause which delimits the reference of an NP by specifying the role of the referent of that NP in the situation described by the RC. Since the NP whose reference is being delimited is in the matrix clause, we will call it NP mat , and we will call...

Factive Relative Clauses in Pulaar

Restrictive Relative Clauses in Maltese

This paper provides a descriptive overview of restrictive relative clauses (henceforth RRCs) in Maltese, a construction which has received little attention to date and which is poorly described in existing grammars. We outline an LFG approach to the facts we describe bulding on existing analyses, and notably on Asudeh 2004/to appear, as far as the treatment of resumption in RRCs is concerned. F...

Comparative Superlatives in Relative Clauses