This dissertation investigates how syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic factors interact to produce the Internally-Headed Relative Clause (IHRC) construction in Korean and Japanese.

We will argue that this construction combines semantic and syntactic quirks that necessitate a constructional analysis. Further, we will show that specifying the pragmatic properties of the construction (and in particular the presuppositions that introduces) allows for a particularly elegant account of the construction’s distribution. This, in turn, provides further support for the sign-based v...

In modern linguistics, the functional and communicative side phenomena are growing towards pragmatic aspect of language. However, problem relationship between meaning its expression still remains in focus linguists’ attention. The characterizing sentences linguistics has not yet been analyzed. This research is first instance a systematic study syntactic structures ways expressing this case, mai...

This study examined the interpretation of English anaphora by native Spanish speakers and potential transfer pragmatic lexical requirements into English. It further evaluated whether appropriate contextual information might prime preferred such constructions. Pragmatic rules governing co-indexation in constructions differ substantially operate quite differently two languages. require obligatory...

It is generally accepted that a discourse connective expresses a semantic and/or pragmatic relation between its matrix sentence or clause and something in the previous discourse. Usually the sense of this relation is expressed as a label, often within a hierarchy of sense labels. But the meaning of these labels may vary from system to system, and the same connective may be assigned different la...