This study aims at analyzing small clause from Functional-Discourse Grammar viewpoint (Hengeveld and Mackenzie 2008) on the basis of language use in social context whose occurrences were extracted from XIX and XX century ...

This research analyzes the use of forms of subjunctive versus other verbal forms (indicative and infinitive) in substantive clauses that express opinion (as a complement to the main clauses with the verbs acreditar and ...

This work investigates the variance and invariance of subject clauses patterns in spoken and written contemporary Brazilian Portuguese. I analyze four parameters (category and semantic class of matrix predicate, form of ...

In this paper, I investigate epistemic parenthetical constructions originated from a constructional scheme formed by a matrix clause with adjectival epistemic predicator and an embedded clause in subject position. I assume ...

This study describes the copular clause in the variety of Trinidadian French Creole (TFC) spoken in Paramin using Higgins’ (1979) taxonomy of copular clauses. Higgins’ taxonomy identifies four classes based on syntactic ...

Te marine cyclopoid Oithona similis sensu lato Claus, 1866, is considered to be one of the most abundant and ubiquitous copepods in the world. However, its minimal original diagnosis and the unclear connection with its ...

This research studies the resumptives in the relative clause in Spanish. Previous studies point to the influence of various factors for the use of the resumptive element in the relative clause (non-restrictive relative ...

This research studies the resumptives in the relative clause in Spanish. Previous studies point to the influence of various factors for the use of the resumptive element in the relative clause (non-restrictive relative ...

We conducted a visual world eye-tracking experiment with highly proficient Spanish-English bilingual adults to investigate the effects of relative language dominance, operationalized as a continuous, multidimensional ...