Reciprocals are characterized by a crossover of thematic roles within a single clause. Their peculiar semantics often creates special argument configurations not found in other clause types. While some languages either encode reciprocals by clearly divalent, transitive clauses, or clearly monovalent, intransitive clauses, others adopt a more ambivalent solution. We develop a typology of valency...

Abstract. Abstract is an essential part of a scientific paper. However, according to the finding researchers working in repository at (UIN) Ar-Raniry Banda Aceh, many students still do not comply with rules for writing papers. This study aims analyze types sentence complexity thesis abstracts UIN Aceh and level use papers by Aceh. used qualitative approach descriptive content analysis methods. ...

Our work aims at the optimization of existing tools for computer-assisted description and analysis of textual data.2 More specifically, we want to proceed to the thematic description of clauses and clause complexes of Quebec Budget speeches from 1934 to 1960. Our main objective is to enhance the work already done in this direction (Bourque and Duchastel, 1988)3 by elaborating the analytic frame...

This paper is concerned with a particular kind of Korean relative clause constructions that contain possessive specifier gaps, as opposed to complement or adjunct gaps. Those relative clauses have been known to violate Ross's Complex NP Constraint, and various attempts have been made to account for the apparent island violations. This paper argues that those relative clauses have possessive spe...

There have been two opposing views on the so-called head internal relative construction (HIRC) in Korean/Japanese, i.e., a view that analyzes the HIRC categorially as a nominal projection and functionally as an argument (Kuroda 1992, Watanabe 1992, Hoshi 1994, Jhang 1991/1994, among others) vs. a view that analyzes the HIRC categorially as an adjunct clause and functionally as a non-argument (M...

A series of self-paced reading time experiments was performed to assess how characteristics of noun phrases (NPs) contribute to the difference in processing difficulty between objectand subject-extracted relative clauses. Structural semantic characteristics of the NP in the embedded clause (definite vs. indefinite and definite vs. generic) did not influence the magnitude of the processing diffi...

In inductive learning, the shift of the representation language of the hypotheses from attribute-value languages to Horn clause logic used by Inductive Logic Programming systems accounts for a very complex hypothesis space. In order to reduce this complexity, most of these systems use biases. In this paper, we study the innuence of these biases on the size of the hypothesis space. For this comp...

The present study deals with the features of long sentences in novel Autumn Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This aimed to identify found and suggest ways comprehend sentences. is beneficial for development English teaching, particularly structure course. data were form phrases, clauses, used which collected through observation method (metode simak). Descriptive qualitative was employed ana...

The research described in this paper is a direct extension of Baldwin et al. (1997), which proposed a declarative rule-based system to analyse gapping in simple Japanese relative clauses. Two shortcomings of this original framework are its inability to handle complex relative clauses, and its non-deterministic nature in choosing between multiple parses for the main verb of the relative clause. ...