Taking the Cartographic Approach, I argue that the left periphery of nominals in Mandarin (i.e., the domain before demonstrative) has properties similar to the split-CP domain proposed by Rizzi (1997). In addition, I argue that the nominal internal domain (i.e., under demonstrative but outside of NP) encodes information structure in a way similar to the sentence-internal Topic and Focus that ha...

Syntax is the study of rules for combining words into a sentence. The purpose this research to find out how syntax Tamiang language especially sentences that are construction in Language such as patterns phrases, clauses, and sentences. This used descriptive design. data were collected through interviewing, noting translating, recording transcribing all utterances language. number subjects abou...

There are well-known word order correlations between clauses and DPs, with clausal VS(O) order correlating with nominal NS(O) order, and, less strongly, with NA order. Of the 53 V1 languages listed in Hawkins (1983) for example, 51 have NG word order, and 38 NA order. These correlations can be illustrated for Kisongo Maasai, an Eastern Nilotic language with strict VSO word order, and (Dem) N (N...

Relative clauses (RCs) are subordinate clauses embedded within nominal phrases. Semantically, this embedded clause modifies the dominating nominal head. Syntactically, the nominal head is associated with an empty element within the subordinate clause. RCs have received great attention from language researchers as they demonstrate crucial properties of the human language. They enable recursion i...

We present a polynomial resolution-based decision procedure for the recently introduced description logic ELHOVn(u) , which features nominal schemas as new language construct. Our algorithm is based on ordered resolution and positive superposition, together with a lifting lemma. In contrast to previous work on resolution for description logics, we have to overcome the fact that ELHOVn(u) does n...

We present a polynomial resolution-based decision procedure for the recently introduced description logic ELHOVn(u) , which features nominal schemas as new language construct. Our algorithm is based on ordered resolution and positive superposition, together with a lifting lemma. In contrast to previous work on resolution for description logics, we have to overcome the fact that ELHOVn(u) does n...

We present a polynomial resolution-based decision procedure for the recently introduced description logic ELHOVn( ) , which features nominal schemas as new language construct. Our algorithm is based on ordered resolution and positive superposition, together with a lifting lemma. In contrast to previous work on resolution for description logics, we have to overcome the fact that ELHOVn( ) does n...

According to the most recent formulation of Relativized Minimality, grammatical features are distinguished between those that syntactically active and not. Under this view, only first play a role in computation locality. Furthermore, whether certain feature is +/− determined by language-specific factors. Gender one has been argued have different values Hebrew vs. Italian, as result, Hebrew-spea...

15 sentence in which they appear. Here, we address this question head-on experimentally. We first investigate the information status of appositives and find that while nominal appositives (e.g. a classical violinist) and sentence-medial appositive relative clauses (e.g. who is a classical violinist) are largely not at issue, sentence-final appositive relative clauses can become at issue, as wit...

The study presented in this article deals with the order of the verbal predicate (V) and its nominal core arguments (Aand P-argument) in declarative transitive clauses in Finnish Sign Language (FinSL). A central finding of the study was that at the macro level of FinSL transitive clauses are not ordered in one unambiguous way, but at least three structural combinations of the verbal and its cor...