Sentence examples for clause structures from inspiring English sources

We propose to supplement the hierarchical architecture of the model with two procedural rules (top-down and depth-first), which in conjunction with a rigid distinction between restriction and predication in underlying clause structures account for these intricacies.

She takes the structure of the original for her own, including the phrasing of the original's sentences (the same introductory and main clause structures) and the overall movement from sentence to sentence.

For example, descriptions of the grammar of MOOD in various languages classify clause structures as imperative, interrogative or declarative (Halliday 1994, Caffarel, Martin & Matthiessen 2004).

Other speakers with aphasia may know the words and their meaning, but have lost the links between those words and the clause structures in which they would be used, causing them to make clausal errors.

For example, the presence/absence of a given element of clause structure yields two different structural types of clause: no change of rank is involved.

In production of language, children across the world proceed from prelinguistic babbling to one-word utterances and on to early word combinations, grammatical clause structure, and clause combining.

Experiment 3 compared materials in which a quantifier was rotated through subject positions of a nested relative clause structure.

Russian clause structure is basically subject verb object (SVO), but word order varies depending on which elements are already familiar in the discourse.

The book will be a valuable guide to researchers studying these phenomena in all languages and initiates a new research agenda in the investigation of clause structure, agreement, Case, discourse configurationality and their typology.

Leading scholars in the field survey a range of topics and offer new insights into central aspects of clause structure and word order, outlining the different stages of their historical development.

"Then you try to get the expression for 'two sticks,' and for 'one stick drops to the ground,'twowo sticks drop to the ground.' You have to act everything out, to get some basic notion of how the clause structure works — where the subject, verb, and object go".