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Arabic punctuation dataset. [PDF]

open access: yesData Brief
Yagi S, Elnagar A, Yaghi E.
europepmc   +1 more source

Subordinate and Interrogative Clause Negation in Iquito

open access: yesLinguistic Typology, 2018
AbstractThis paper describes a specific non-standard negation strategy in Iquito, a moribund Zaparoan language spoken in northern Peruvian Amazonia. This strategy is used in finite subordinate clauses (namely adverbial dependent clauses and relative clauses), as well as information questions, and it utilizes two negative markers: a negative particle ...
Cynthia Hansen
exaly   +3 more sources

Interrogative Clauses in English and the Social Economics of Questions

Journal of Pragmatics, 2017
Abstract Communicative interaction may be conceived of as a give and take of information that partners in conversation assign a value to and track carefully. The social value of information gives rise to a complicated microeconomic system in the sense of Levinson (2012) in which asking for information is associated with social costs that speakers ...
Peter Siemund
exaly   +2 more sources

Non-Interrogative Subordinate Wh-Clauses

2023
AbstractThis volume presents fourteen case studies of wh-clauses which are non-interrogative—lacking an interrogative meaning—and (mostly) subordinate. Moreover, the major part of the studies focuses on cases in which the meaning of the wh-word seems to deviate from the literal meaning of the wh-word (referring to persons, things, places, times, etc.).
exaly   +2 more sources

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