The overarching goal of this article is to account for why the Internally-Headed Relative Clause, the direct perception, and the factive constructions in Korean have an identical form involving the pronominal kes and the relativizer -un, despite the fact that one construction instantiates relativization and the other two instantiate complementation. I solve this puzzle by recasting Kim’s (2007)...

The so-called Internally Headed Relative Clause (IHRC) construction found in the head-final languages Korean and Japanese has received little attention from computational perspectives even though it is frequently found in both text and speech. This is partly because there have been no grammars precise enough to allow deep processing of the construction’s syntactic and semantic properties. This ...

Information-theoretic complexity metrics, such as Surprisal (Hale, 2001; Levy, 2008) and Entropy Reduction 2003), are linking hypotheses that bridge theorized expectations about sentences observed processing difficulty in comprehension. These can be viewed syntactic derivations constrained by a grammar. However, this expectation-based view is not limited to information alone. The present study ...

Relativization is a robust subordinating type across languages, displaying important typological variability concerning the position of nominal head that relative clause modifies, and sign languages are no exception. It has been widely assumed since Keenan & Comrie (1977) subject more accessible to relativization than object oblique positions. The main aim this paper investigate extensi...