It is TIMM, BRETON RELATIVE CLAUSES 85 interesting in this connection to note the creation in CB of an apparently novel complementizer /la(R)/ used to introduce reported speech or subordinate clauses following matrix verbs of cognition (such as 'think', 'know', 'believe'), where the ...
Complete the sentences using nonrestrictive relative clauses to give extra information. Thenshare them with your group members.EXAMPLEI'd like to try.,.I'd like to try that Chinese herbal medicine again, which seemsto work best for my cough.1 I would like to travel around..,.2 What ...
Romanian allows for the wh-word cât/câtă/câţi/câte‘how much/many’ (inflected for gender and number) to introduce headed relative clauses whose nominal head is preceded by a numeral or certain quantifiers (Grosu 2013). Cât/câtă/câţi/câte in headed relative clause...
2. English Relative Clauses The temporal interpretation of English relative clauses has been extensively inves- tigated (Abusch 1988; Ladusaw 1977; Ogihara 1996; Stowell 1993, 2007 and references therein). In extensional contexts, English RCs yield temporally free construals (Enç 1986). In (...
La mesa]FEM que era [roja]FEM ‘The table that was red’ However, processing gender agreement in relative clauses with complex noun phrases as antecedents like (7a-b) is a more challenging task. In these cases, gender information provides valuable cues to help determine the antecedent that ...