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Testing the interface hypothesis: the acquisition of English indirect questions by L1 speakers of Omani Arabic [PDF]
Heliyon, 2022 This study tests the interface hypothesis by investigating how advanced Arab learners of English develop the grammatical knowledge of English indirect questions.
Amer Ahmed, Iryna Lenchuk
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Natural syntax : English interrogative main clauses
Linguistica, 2007 Natural Syntax is a developing deductive theory, a branch of Naturalness Theory. The naturalnessjudgements are couched in naturalness scales, whichfollow from the basic parameters (or «axioms») listed at the beginning of the paper.
Janez Oresnik
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Between rhetorical questions and information requests: A versatile interrogative clause in Estonian
Open Linguistics, 2023 This article investigates the pragmatic and functional aspects of an interrogative question pattern in Estonian: questions introduced by the adjective huvitav (‘interesting’).
Amon Marri
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MOOD CHOICE IN GRADUATE STUDENTS SIMULATED CONVERSATION
ELT Echo: The Journal of English Language Teaching in Foreign Language Context, 2020 This study investigates the mood choice used by Indonesian English foreign language learners. The data were the spoken utterances of simulated conversation by four graduate students of English Education Department.
Destra Wibowo Kusumo +1 more
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Glossa, 2021 Question-sensitive discourse particles (QDiPs) like German denn introduce non-at-issue meaning that intuitively reshapes the Force of the interrogative clause.
Anna Czypionka +2 more
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A Minimalist Approach to the Syntactic Position of the Q-Particle ‘aya’ in Persian [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2020 The present paper aims to determine the position of the Q-particle ‘aya’ in Persian within the Minimalist framework (e.g. Chomsky, 1995, 2001). To this end, first, evidence is provided against the idea that the Q-particle ‘aya’ is in the head of the ...
Hossein Moghani
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On reconstruction effects in English wh-slifting: Theoretical and experimental considerations
Glossa, 2019 In this paper, reconstruction for Binding Principles A and C will be (re)considered in wh-slifting, a construction which appears to associate a wh-interrogative clause with a yes/no-interrogative clause, whose predicate typically selects propositions ...
Christos Vlachos +2 more
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F1000Research, 2021 To evaluate the development of children’s writing ability, it is necessary not only to examine quantitative indices such as the dependency distance, but also to inquiry the types of structures they use. We conducted clause boundary labeling using Support
Mizuho Imada +3 more
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From northern Italian to Asian wh-in situ: A theory of low focus movement
Isogloss, 2021 The mainstream literature on the Romance dialects of northern Italy has explained the morphosyntax of clause-internal wh-elements in answer-seeking interrogatives as either the result of interrogative movement into the lower portion of the high left ...
Caterina Bonan
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Sinhala focus concord constructions from a discourse-syntactic perspective
Glossa, 2018 Sinhala is a language in which a focus particle may be used for marking focus with no visible movement. In Sinhala, a focused constituent can be delimited by a focus particle appearing in clause-internal position, but the same particle is often allowed ...
Hideki Kishimoto
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