Essays about: "pied-piping"
Found 2 essays containing the word pied-piping.
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1. Should it move or should it stay? How speakers of two Basque dialects organize meaningful elements in transitive clauses
University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskapAbstract : This thesis investigates word order patterns in spoken Basque for two dialects, Navarrese-Lapurdian and Gipuzkoan. The data for the analysis was elicited with stimuli pictures in an experiment in dialogue form. The 26 participants were from Hazparne (Lapurdi), Donostia, and Andoain (both Gipuzkoa). READ MORE
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2. A preposition is something which you should never end a sentence with : A corpus-based study on preposition stranding
University essay from Institutionen för humanioraAbstract : This study examines to what extent preposition stranding is used in connection with which, whom and who in three different UK papers. Also what factors influence the use of preposition stranding has been studied. The hypothesis that pied-piping is more common than preposition stranding has been confirmed. READ MORE