Internal and External Relative Clauses in Ancient Greek

A Centering analysis of relative clauses in English and Greek

Interpreting Japanese Head-Internal Relative Clauses

Japanese has both head-external and head-internal relative clauses (HERC & HIRC). Example (1a) shows a standard HERC. In contrast, the HIRC in (1b) has the form of an independent sentence, the bold-faced head occurring inside the relative, and it is followed by the complementizer -no and a case morpheme that relates the internal head to the matrix verb. A core question is what the interpretatio...

Number and Case in the comprehension of relative clauses: Evidence from Italian and Greek

1. Introduction Relative clauses have been extensively studied from several perspectives. Cross-linguistic research findings indicate a relatively consistent pattern of performance since they show that subject relatives are significantly easier to acquire and process These findings have been interpreted in terms of the length of the dependencies required for subject and object relatives. As sho...

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...

The role of animacy in the production of greek relative clauses

This paper examines the effects of animacy on relative clauses production in Greek. Previous studies in English suggest that animacy influences structure preferences in main and relative clauses: animate entities are typically made the subject of the verb and this tendency often results in passive structures. In the present experiment, Greek speakers were presented with pictures depicting actio...