the present study attempts to investigate parsing preferences (early vs. late closure) of native and l2 learners of both english and persian when they read ambiguous relative clauses. the purpose is to find out if l2 learners process l2 linguistic input in the way monolingual speakers of that language do. the participants took tests including 10 test sentences plus 10 distractors, each followed...

1The case specification on the gloss of the verb here indicates the verb’s case requirement on the NP realizing as the free relative clause. 2Two cases are defined to match in terms of case form iff either (i) they are identical or (ii) the forms of case-inflecting items of the person and gender in question are identical in both cases. (E.g. nominative and accusative match when the pronoun is i...

This article describes the construction and specificity of co-occurrence auxiliary unit “by example of”.  The relevance this research is substantiated by need for comprehensive description words. The object prepositional of” which belongs to group denominal relative clause. subject semantics of”, constructions it forms, peculiarities its co-occur...

In this chapter, we examine the typology of relative clauses. We will define relative clauses as follows: (1) A relative clause (RC) is a subordinate clause which delimits the reference of an NP by specifying the role of the referent of that NP in the situation described by the RC. Since the NP whose reference is being delimited is in the matrix clause, we will call it NP mat , and we will call...