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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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Interpersonal Realizations of Pedagogic Discourse in Indonesian EFL Classrooms
International Journal of Language Teaching and Education, 2018 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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Clause chaining and switch-reference in Aikanã and Kwaza
Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, 2021 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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« Car je suis un... tu sais quoi ? Rappeur » : Étude pragma-syntaxique de la séquence Tu sais quoi ?
Lexique, 2021 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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Interrogative Slifting: More syntactic, less parenthetical
Glossa, 2016 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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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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The North Samoyedic interrogative verb meaning ‘say what’
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2020 A cross-linguistically rare interrogative category (i.e., an interrogative verb with the meaning ‘say what’) is observed in the North Samoyedic (Uralic) languages.
Nikolett Mus
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A continuation semantics of interrogatives that accounts for Baker's ambiguity [PDF]
, 2002 Wh-phrases in English can appear both raised and in-situ. However, only in-situ wh-phrases can take semantic scope beyond the immediately enclosing clause.
Shan, Chung-chieh
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The periphery of vP in the theory of wh-in situ
Glossa, 2021 This article outlines an implementation of Cable’s (2010) Grammar of Q that considers the role played by the periphery of vP, hitherto unexplored in this framework. Empirically, I offer a new example, in a new language family, of a known manifestation of
Caterina Bonan
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Yes/no and Wh-Questions in Ǹjò̩-Kóo : A Unified Analysis
Corela, 2018 Cet article, s’inscrit dans le cadre minimaliste de la syntaxe générative et étudie oui / non et wh-questions dans la langue Ǹjò̩-kóo (Benue-Congo), parlée dans l’état de Ondo au Nigeria.
Simeon Olaogun
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