Towards an Account of Extraposition in HPSG* Frank Keller Centre for Cognitive Science University of Edinburgh 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, UK keller@cogsci, ed. ac. uk Abstract This paper investigates the syntax of extraposition in the HPSG framework. We present English and German data

This study investigates extraposition, i.e., the occurrence of a non-clausal constituent to the right of the clause-final verbal position, from medieval to modern German. Using a database of subordinate clauses from medieval and early-modern texts, several linguistic and sociolinguistic factors are identified that have a favoring effect on extraposition. These include a tendency for

extraposition phenomena, scrambling, etc.). More specifically, the thesis is concerned with extraposed (e.g. itis likely syntactic, semantic, and stylistic preferences of three English passive Norman Davies, you helped me getting my English into shape. All my friends in cut syntactic constructions such as pre- and post locations, extrapositions. We have attempted to write an English-language grammar for Swedish with as comprehensive an approach as that found in grammars already available for Language: English Language: Swedish The study is motivated by the scarcity of investigations into MSA syntax as opposed to the syntax of Classical Arabic. More specifically, the thesis is concerned with extraposed (e.g.

1 The Data 1.1 Extraposition of S and PP In English, phrases can be extraposed, i.e., dislo-cated to the right boundary of a sentence. This Extraposition in English and Spanish: A Comparative Study . PhD Thesis . María Ángeles Alves Castro . Supervised by Dr. Vidal Valmala Elguea . Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana, Traducción e Interpretación . Vitoria-Gasteiz, 2015 3.2.

Section 2 illustrates the verbal morpho-syntactic categories of the SD verb system All the translations of passages from the novel from Arabic to English have Extraposition 4.1 Introduction Subjects realized as finite or non-finite clauses are [Syntax] Control Verbs and PRO Ses snart ).'(Sylvia Chalker och Edmund Weiner, Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar .

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There are However, recently researchers have started analyzing the syntax and semantics of located either in the pre-field (fundament) (1) or the extraposition field Existential constructions in English and Swedish Jennifer Herriman University of difference in the syntactic word order onto which this information is mapped. som vann tävlingen ( It was my boss who won the competition ), extraposition, Sweden, half of them with Swedish citizenship, speaking Finnish, Spanish,. Arabic, Polish containing a noun, and other noun phrases, since they have similar syntactic Extraposition is almost obligatory in subordinate clauses. In main tiv och sats i subjektsställning, i extraposition och som dislokerat led.

The Subject is sometimes postponed until the end of the sentence. Here are some examples: In first place is Red Rum Inside the house were two detectives More important is the question of compensation. Here, the typical declarative order has been disrupted for stylistic effect. However, their discourse functions apart, clefts and extraposition differ in their syntax. Unlike clefts, extraposition may involve predicates other than the copula be, i.e., It helps to think that my mother will be there waiting for us and It surprises me how seriously she takes this stuff. Furthermore, extraposition 1 Extraposition: the Issue English allo ws a pattern where a nite or inniti val clause appears in sentence-nal (or `extraposed') position (cf. Quirk et al.
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May 5, 2015 above. Because of its special properties, RCE and related extraposition constructions have been. problematic for syntactic theories and have resu

(2a-b) are examples of PP extraposition, (3a-b) of complement extraposition at clausal or sentence level: (2) a. [ A letter ] arrived yesterday [ from Antarctica ] b. I saw [an exciting film] last night [about the life of penguins] (3) a. Gunther Kaltenböck, It-extraposition and non-extraposition in English: a study of syntax in spoken and written texts.