Prescriptive and descriptive grammars of Hungarian frequently discuss variation in the choice of relative pronoun in Hungarian. This paper presents quantitative data about some long standing questions raised by prescriptivists, and a phenomenon that has not been explored: the lack of agreement between the pronoun and the antecedent in Colloquial Hungarian. The study presented here is based on t...

ing over the relative tense inside the subordinate (marked) clause produces a property of times that can combine with the main (unmarked) clause through set intersection (or predicate modification; Heim & Kratzer 1998:65), as long as it is adjoined low enough to combine with another property of times. This is much like the semantic composition of a temporal adjunct clause (see, for instance, vo...

Previous cross-linguistic studies have shown that object relative clauses (ORCs) are typically harder to parse than subject (SRCs). The cause of difficulty, however, is still under debate, both in the adult and developmental literature. present study investigates on-line processing SRCs ORCs Greek-speaking 11- 12-year-old children adults, provides evidence on clause Greek—a free word order lang...

We study the computational complexity of the parsing problem of a variant of Lambek Categorial Grammar that we call semidirectional. In semidirectional Lambek calculus SD[ there is an additional nondirectional abstraction rule allowing the formula abstracted over to appear anywhere in the premise sequent's left-hand side, thus permitting non-peripheral extraction. SD[ grammars are able to gener...

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...