Syntactic complexity has preferably been studied in written texts, thus relegating exploration of syntactic relations in different types of texts and their constitutive phases to second place. The case study herein presents ...

This paper describes the complex clause in Boruca, a Chibchan language once spoken in the southern territories on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. The present study concentrates on the behavior of complex clauses, following ...

To date, most of the existing standard grammatical descriptions of the English language have used decontextualised written sentence tokens as their primary source of data. However, these standard grammatical descriptions ...

Este estudio se centra en el análisis de la complejidad sintáctica (CS) en narrativas escritas por niños que hablan español como lengua de herencia (LH). Para el análisis, se consideraron medidas tradicionales de CS: unidad ...

Clausal relativization is a semantic-syntactic strategy that allows for natural languages to restrict/delimit a reference. In most natural languages, a relative clause exhibits a formal correlate. This is the case of ...

In this paper, motivated by problems related to grammar teaching, we propose a description of some noun subordinate clauses from an interdiscursive perspective. Based on the principles of the Functional Discourse Grammar ...

As a more extensive issue, this paper deals with the polysemy attested in all Romance languages between interrogative pronouns and subordination markers in complex sentences. It investigates, specifically, the behavior of ...