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Tangut 'ja¹ as a Constituent Question Particle
Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 2023The Tangut character'ja¹(#1718) is usually glossed as Chin.nuò诺 ‘(to) promise; yes’ in dictionaries. Given the fact that it does occur in rhetorical questions, this article argues that Tangut'ja¹is instead a constituent question particle and thus not restricted in rhetorical use.
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The acquisition of constituent questions and the requirements of interpretation
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Emotional Constituent of Rhetorical Questions (Based on the Lyrics of English Songs)
Philology & Human, 2023The article deals with rhetorical questions whose importance is evaluated, while interpreting the speaker’s psychological and emotional state. The author of the article offers theories about this grammatical unit, provided by foreign linguists. The theoretical aspects are supported with the examples from English songs of two long-plays A Brief Inquiry ...
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Constituent Questions and the Copula of Specification
2008A cross-linguistic investigation of interrogative and declarative specificational copular clauses leads to the conclusion that specificational subjects must be non-rigid designators that are ‘indirectly contextually anchored’. Indirect contextual anchoring is a relation between the denotation of an intensional noun phrase and the context of utterance ...
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The Politics of the Question of Constituent Power
2008AbstractThis chapter mounts a defence of a liberal constitutionalism in which constitutional architecture is treated as eclipsing constituent power, not on the basis of the empirical inevitability of the legal taming of the political, but on account of the impossibility of developing normative accounts of how we might live together except on the basis ...
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On a question of C. Bonnafé on characters and multiplicity free constituents
Journal of Algebra, 2019zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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Electoral Vulnerability, Constituency Focus, and Parliamentary Questions in the House of Commons
The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 2015This article: Demonstrates that use of written parliamentary questions by British MPs is influenced by electoral context. Shows that as the margin of victory in prior election decreases, members ask more questions. Indicates that the margin of victory does not affect proportion of questions that focus on constituency issues.
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The Michael Marsh Question: How do Finns do Constituency Service?
Parliamentary Affairs, 2010Work on the representational focus of Finnish parliamentarians has been largely conspicuous by its absence and the notion of ‘constituency service’ is neither familiar to Finns, nor does it translate into Finnish. Based on interviews with MPs and their personal assistants, data from the Finnish leg of the Comparative Candidate Survey and official ...
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Using Parliamentary Questions to Measure Constituency Focus: An Application to the Irish Case
Political Studies, 2011Individual legislators differ in the degree to which they work to cultivate personal votes. While conventional wisdom declares that the electoral system typically motivates the choice of legislative role, researchers have found difficulty assessing empirically the role behaviour of legislators.
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