Selectives (“topic markers”) on subordinate clauses

Information Structure in Subordinate and Subordinate-Like Clauses

While information structure has traditionally been viewed as a single partition of information within an utterance, there are opposing views that identify multiple such partitions in an utterance. The existence of alternative proposals raises questions about the notion of information structure and also its relation to discourse structure. Exploring various linguistic aspects, this paper support...

Genitive Subject Licensing in Uyghur Subordinate Clauses

In this paper, we analyze certain embedded clauses in Uyghur, a Turkic language spoken in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. We argue i) that genitive case on the subjects of these clauses is licensed by agreement with a clause-external head, and ii) that these clauses are full CPs. Putting these two claims together, we have evidence that Uyghur exhibits agreement and case-assignme...

On the Left Periphery of German Subordinate Clauses

Aspects of the Translation of English Subordinate Clauses into Aspects of the Translation of English Subordinate Clauses into German

While many errors in machine translated texts are due to word sense ambiguity, syntactical transfer still poses problems, too. For a particular type of syntactic structure, namely, subordinate clauses, this paper distinguishes five kinds of translation difficulties: crosslanguage differences, syntactic ambiguity, functional ambiguity, stylistic preferences, and grammatical coverage.

Location Specific Constraints in Matrix and Subordinate Clauses w Jane

Matrix and subordinate clauses can be different. This paper has two goals. One is to set out a general perspective on the differences between matrix and subordinate clauses, based on constraint interaction (Prince and Smolensky 1993, 2004).. The other is to solve an empirical problem with a long history: the fact that inversion of a subject and auxiliary does not occur in subordinate interrogat...