Noun complement clauses as referential modifiers

Pre-Noun Modifiers as a Means to Describe Product Characteristics

The article deals with the characteristics of noun phrases functioning in pre-position. Pre-noun modifiers, or attributive modifiers, are among the high-capacity structures in the contemporary English language, as they enable to devoid of prepositions and to describe objects in a laconic way. The goal of this research was to analyze the way scholars interpret this linguistic structure today, as...

Semantic Effects of Focus on Modifiers in Complement Clauses∗

We investigate the semantic effects of focus in complement clauses of various kinds of complement-taking predicates and argue that the empirically attested readings are predicted by the interplay of two principles: (i) embedded focus locally triggers the presupposition that the existential closure of the background is true, (ii) embedding predicates differ in their presupposition projection pro...

Complement Clauses and Expletives

Complement clauses in Dutch may appear in either extraposed or fronted position. An extraposed clause may cooccur with an expletive element het (it), but this element is never present if the complement clause is fronted. In this paperwe investigate howwemay account for this asymmetry in a nontransformational framework such as HPSG. In Dutch subordinate clauses, complement clauses always appear ...

Relative clauses and nominal modifiers in Cantonese

Generalized Clausal Modifiers in Thai Noun Phrases

The Thai particle thı̂i introduces relative clauses and noun-complement clauses, but does not introduce clausal complements of verbs. This paper provides a unified analysis for these two noun phraseinternal clauses as modifiers, proposing that thı̂i is a compementizer which is interpreted as a lambdaoperator that derives CP-sized properties. This analysis is extended to the use of thı̂i in factive...