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Exclamative Wh-Phrases as Positive Polarity Items [PDF]
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2008 This paper studies the island effects induced by negation in exclamative sentences. In order to explain this phenomenon, I focus on the interaction between exclamative wh-phrases and negation, showing that negation can appear in exclamative sentences ...
Raquel González Rodríguez
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Exclamatives: A Thematic Guide with Many Questions and Few Answers [PDF]
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2008 In this paper a snapshot is offered of the state of the art in the research on exclamatives, reviewing our current understanding of “classic’’ issues, like factivity, high degree, or the relationship between exclamatives and interrogatives, and ...
Xavier Villalba
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Spanish Root Exclamatives at the Syntax/Semantics Interface [PDF]
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2008 In this paper several aspects of the syntax and semantics of Spanish root exclamatives are analyzed. Assuming a multi-layered approach to the CP projection, it is argued that a degree feature is checked in the Focus layer and that the exclamative feature
Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach
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Deconstructing Exclamations [PDF]
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2008 While it is still not widely accepted that exclamatives are a clause type, exclamations are intuitively considered a speech act comparable to assertions and questions. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the notion of exclamation.
Elena Castroviejo Miró
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The exclamative sentences in Nafsat al-Masdur [PDF]
Literary Arts, 2016 Nafsat al-Masdur, by Shahab od-din Mohammad Zeidari Nasavi, is one of the noted literary-historical texts in Mongolian period that includes a compact and straight exposition of devilry conflicts of that period. Its emotive friendly letter writing format,
Mohammad ali Khazanehdarloo +1 more
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The Right Edge of Exclamative Sentences in Catalan [PDF]
, 2001 In the paper it is argued that certain exclamative constructions apparently involving right-dislocation of an adjective must be analyzed as having it in situ, forming a small clause with a null exclamative operator.
Xavier Villalba
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A Functional Typology Perspective on Exclamative Sentences in Sundanese Folktales
JL3T (Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Language Teaching)This study analyzes exclamatory constructions in Sundanese folktales (narrative genre), 9,005 tokens from 30 texts through corpus-driven and functional-typological frameworks. Findings reveal that directive particles (hayu), intensifiers (pisan, teuing),
Wida Mulyanti +3 more
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Signum: Estudos da Linguagem, 2014 This paper is a perceptive study of interrogative and exclamative sentences of speakers from Vitoria da Conquista, Bahia. The aim of the research was to investigate just how much of variation of the F0 is needed to ensure the perceptibility of a ...
Juscelia Silva Novais OLIVEIRA +2 more
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SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN TWO EXCLAMATIVE SENTENCES OF BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE
Gragoatá, 2016 In a descriptive side, this paper aims to observe the syntactic-semantic pattern of two exclamative structures under-researched of Brazilian Portuguese and, through some diagnostics, verify the differences and similarities between them.
Marcelo Amorim Sibaldo
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Zvolací výpovědi v češtině: kontrastivní pohled [PDF]
Časopis pro Moderní Filologii, 2023 The text focuses on the formal realization of the communicative function of exclamation in Czech. Since Czech exclamative sentences do not constitute a separate formally distinct sentence type, we apply a contrastive (English — Czech) corpus-assisted ...
Markéta Malá , Zuzana Nádraská
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