This paper presents an analysis of Internally Headed Relative Clause (IHRC) construction in Japanese within the framework of Combinatory Categorial Grammar [Steedman 2000]. Shimoyama [1999] argues that when an IHRC appears within the scope of a universal quantifier, the interpretation of the IHRC exemplifies E-type anaphora and that the LF representation of the IHRC should have a variable bound...

This paper addresses the semantics of the present form (known as the -ru form) of activity verbs in Japanese and examines the effect of these verbs in contrast to that of the inflected form (the -ta form). Garden-path sentences involving an ambiguity between a simple sentential reading and a relative clause reading generally show a preference for the former reading; when the preferred reading p...

in german, a relative clause is marked by relative pronoun, which agrees withtheir head noun in gender and number. however, relative clauses in farsi arealways introduced by using a conjunction “ke”. this difference could be iranianand german learners when learning languages, german and farsi to confrontdifficulties. the present study focuses on relativisation strategies based ontypological 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. ...

This paper attempts to analyze some grammatical aspects of the so called internally-headed relative clause construction in Korean. This paper proposes that the meaning of the external head kes is underspecified in the sense that its semantic content is filled in by co-indexing it to the internal head under appropriate conditions. This paper also argues that interpretation of kes is determined b...

Production and perception errors are common in everyday language use. Recent studies suggest that order to overcome the flawed speech signal, comprehenders engage rational noisy-channel processing, which can pull their interpretation towards more probable “near-neighbor” analyses, based on assumption an error may have occurred transmission of sentence. We investigate this type processing using ...

Relative clauses are considered strong islands for extraction across languages. Swedish comprises a well-known exception, allegedly allowing extraction from relative clauses (RCE), raising the possibility that island constraints may be subject to "deep variation" between languages. One alternative is that such exceptions are only illusory and represent "surface variation" attributable to indepe...

Recent research has indicated that a verb’s preferential subcategorization frame plays a fundamental role in guiding the choice of the type of complement that follows a verb. For example, sentences with a sentential complement-biased verb, such as “admitted”, will cause less processing difficulties when it is followed by a sentential complement than when it is followed by a direct object. Such ...

This paper investigates non-destructive simplification, a type of syntactic text simplification which focuses on extracting embedded clauses from structurally complex sentences and rephrasing them without affecting their original meaning. This process reduces the average sentence length and complexity to make text simpler. Although relevant for human readers with low reading skills or language ...