In this article, the so-called wh-relative clause construction is investigated. The German wh-relative clauses are syntactically relevant as they show both, root clause and subordinate clause properties. They matter semantically because they are introduced by a wh-anaphor that has to be resolved by an appropriate abstract entity of the matrix clause. Additionally, the wh-relative clause constru...

ing over the relative tense inside the subordinate (marked) clause produces a property of times that can combine with the main (unmarked) clause through set intersection (or predicate modification; Heim & Kratzer 1998:65), as long as it is adjoined low enough to combine with another property of times. This is much like the semantic composition of a temporal adjunct clause (see, for instance, vo...

in arabic, the letter “vav” (meaning and) is normally not used to indicate a causal function between a main clause and a subordinate clause of purpose beginning with “causal lam mansoub” and a present verb. for example, “(this is) a book which we have revealed to you that you may bring forth men, by their lord’s permission form utter darkness into light.” this structure is prescribed in standar...

Considerable progress in local search has recently been made in using clause weighting algorithms to solve satisfiability benchmark problems. While these algorithms have outperformed earlier stochastic techniques on many larger problems, this improvement has generally required extra, problem specific, parameters requiring fine tuning to problem domains for optimal run-time performance. In a pre...

In this article, the so-called wh-relative clause construction is investigated. The German wh-relative clauses are syntactically relevant as they show both, root clause and subordinate clause properties. They matter semantically because they are introduced by a wh-anaphor that has to be resolved by an appropriate abstract entity of the matrix clause. Additionally, the wh-relative clause constru...

In this paper, we analyze the various philosophies to define a query language for geographical database. The differences among the three possibilities of extending the SQL language rely on the definition of the clause Select: (1) the clause Select does not accept a spatial operator and the Where clause accepts one (or several) predicate defined between attributes; (2) the clause Select accepts ...

This paper presents a clause boundary identification system for Malayalam sentences using the machine learning approach CRF (Conditional Random Field).Malayalam Language is considered as a 'Left branching language' where verbs are seen at the end of the sentence. Clause boundary identification plays a vital role in many NLP applications and for Malayalam language, the clause boundary identifica...

• Clause Typing This work is part of a broader project on clause typing undertaken collaboratively with Raffaella Zanuttini. Our work on clause types begins from the following fundamental points: ∗This is part of a project funded by NSF grant BCS-0234278, ‘Clause Types: Form and Force in Grammatical Theory’, to Paul Portner and Raffaella Zanuttini. Miok Pak, and Simon Mauck, our collaborators o...

In European Portuguese (EP), intonation has a grammatical function. In the available research in EP intonation, production imperatives are said to have an F0 risingfalling contour of large amplitude and are described as having an intonation contour similar to wh-questions, although they present rhythmic differences (Viana, 1987). A possible increase in pitch span was also reported. Two percepti...