The present paper reports on the way tonal correlates of focus impact its identification in Greek simple declaratives. The material was based on 4 utterances with different focus placement. Manipulation of the F0 contour and duration of the original utterances resulted in a list of 18 utterances, repeated 10 times each, and presented randomly to each of 10 informants. The informants were asked ...

ion property for the main clause is greater than or equal to the cardinality of the than clause property. The latter is obtained by taking the boolean meet of the property corresponding to the common noun argument of the hypothetical determiner in the than clause and the noun-phrase abstraction property of the than clause. So our example would be paraphraseable as: ‘the number of books bought b...

The types of speech acts in Prophet Mohammed's farewell sermon were investigated this study. last Mohammed was analyzed using the theory qualitative case According to analysis, contains a variety acts. Directives, assertives, commissives, declaratives, and expressives used sermon. This study is significant because speaker well-known, piquing interest many readers. Furthermore, clear full logica...

In Danish relative clauses and embedded interrogative clauses are not extraction islands. However, there is an asymmetry between the two clauses. In Danish it is possible to extract the subject out of an embedded interrogative clause. Extraction of the subject out of a relative clause, on the other hand, is not allowed. In this paper we present a formal HPSG analysis of extraction in Danish whi...