The morphosyntactic categories of tense, aspect and mood are traditionally considered to be properties of verbs. However, the morphological expression of these categories within the nominal system is attested across a range of languages. Drawing on data from a number of languages, we provide a preliminary sketch of the phenomenon of nominal tense with nominal scope that is, cases in which nomin...

The study of clausal ellipsis in sentence processing has revealed that comprehenders are sensitive to multiple, sometimes conflicting, pressures when recovering elided content. This paper presents a pupillometry experiment investigating how the human language system responds sentences which location pitch accent clashes with global preferences for local correlates. results discussed light exist...

This paper reports on an empirically based system that automatically resolves VP ellipsis in the 644 examples identified in the parsed Penn Treebank. The results reported here represent the first systematic corpus-based study of VP ellipsis resolution, and the performance of the system is comparable to the best existing systems for pronoun resolution. The methodology and utilities described can...

Recent debates on Japanese clausal comparatives have yielded several competing theories of their syntax and semantics with different implications for the issue of crosslinguistic variation in comparative constructions. This paper offers a novel syntactic account of Japanese clausal comparatives. It claims that despite their appearance, Japanese clausal comparatives in fact involve a nominal str...

In this article, authors talk about the relevance of the training of foreign students in verbal-nominal combinations in different spheres of functioning. It is important for language adaptation. Language adaptation depends on how students know the system of language and the feature of language expression of sense. Verbal-nominal combinations are used in different spheres therefore they can be s...

Abstract Prior to widespread contact with Russian, Khanty (Uralic; Finno-Ugric) did not have overt conjunctions or phrasal coordination. Instead, texts from the late 19th–early 20th centuries only include examples of conjunction-less clausal juxtaposition, which was used for both and By comparing over century, we trace emergence coordination constituents. We show that first appeared in context ...

We present an algorithm which assigns interpretations to several major types of ellipsis structures through a generalized procedure of syntactic reconstruction. Ellipsis structures are taken to be sequences of lexically realized arguments and/or adjuncts of an empty verbal head. Reconstruction is characterized as the specification of a (partial) correspondence relation between the unrealized he...

Korean has two types of answers shorter than full sentential answers: Fragments and null argument constructions. Apparently the two constructions have the same interpretative processes. However, there are some cases where the fragment and null argument construction behave differently: e.g., wh-puzzles, sloppy interpretation. We suggest that the two constructions involve two different types of a...

While the left clausal periphery has been in the center of attention of syntactic theory since the 1970s, the right periphery remains comparatively ill-understood. The goal of this paper is to rectify this situation. We argue that Germanic right-dislocation constructions are biclausal structures, the dislocated peripheral XP being a remnant of ellipsis in the second clause. This analysis accoun...

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