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Indonesian Interrogative Sentences: a Study of Forms and Functions [PDF]
This study examines Indonesian interrogative sentence problems by focusing on issues of forms and functions. The data used in this analysis are interrogative sentences in Indonesian language that are currently used in oral and in interethnic ...
Lindawati Lindawati
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Interrogative Slifting: More syntactic, less parenthetical [PDF]
In this article we re-assess the recent analysis of interrogative Slifting (e.g., Who is a Martian, do you think?) proposed in Haddican et al. (2014). In this analysis, the two component clauses have an indirect syntactic relation to each other, and the ...
Arthur Stepanov, Penka Stateva
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SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS OF GWOROG (KAGORO) CLAUSE STRUCTURE [PDF]
This paper entitled “ Syntactic Analysis of Kagoro (Gworog) Clause Structure” is a descriptive study targeted at identifying how the speakers of Gworog manipulate structural elements of the basic clause of their language to achieve their desired goals ...
Samuel, Yahaya Daniel, Kwasau, Hannatu
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This paper endeavours to open new perspectives on the contribution of negative interrogatives to the accommodation strategies used by the speaker in the interactions taking place in the TV debate Question Time (a corpus collected by Laurent Rouveyrol at ...
Pauline Levillain
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Clause chaining and switch-reference in Aikanã and Kwaza
In Aikanã and Kwaza, neighbouring endangered isolate languages of Rondônia, Brazil, sentences can include chains of medial clauses and end with a predicate in a matrix sentence mood, such as declarative, interrogative etc.
Hein van der Voort
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Clause Types (and Clausal Complementation) in Germanic
Clauses can fulfill various functions in discourse; in most cases, the form of the clause is indicative of its discourse function. The discourse functions (such as making statements or asking questions) are referred to as speech acts, while the ...
Bacskai-Atkari, J., Julia Bacskai-Atkari
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There has been a great deal of work examining the structures of yes/no and wh-constructions that has led to many important developments in linguistic theory.
Ginsburg, Jason Robert
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Interpersonal Realizations of Pedagogic Discourse in Indonesian EFL Classrooms
This paper describes the lexicogrammatical realizations of interpersonal meaning in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms in Indonesian university context.
Sunardi Sunardi +3 more
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Between rhetorical questions and information requests: A versatile interrogative clause in Estonian
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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« Car je suis un... tu sais quoi ? Rappeur » : Étude pragma-syntaxique de la séquence Tu sais quoi ?
This article investigates uses of the interrogative sequence Tu sais Qu-? (most known under its variant tu sais quoi ?, Eng. you know what?), which are typically involved in projecting a subsequent action in discourse.
Alexander Guryev
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