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Interrogatives as Requests in Because-Clauses

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Polytope: High-resolution epitope barcoding forin vivospatial fate-mapping

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On the presuppositional strength of interrogative clauses

Natural Language Semantics, 2021
A central question in the study of presuppositions is how a presupposition trigger contributes to the meaning of a complex expression containing it. Two competing answers are found in the literature on quantificational expressions. According to the first, a quantificational expression presupposes that every member of its domain satisfies the ...
Maayan Abenina-Adar, Yael Sharvit
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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.).
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Varieties of non-interrogative subordinatewh-clauses

2023
AbstractIn the introductory chapter we provide an overview over non-interrogative (and subordinate) uses of wh-clauses introduced by manner, temporal, and locative expressions—English how, when, and where. We focus, in particular, on wh-clauses in which the meaning of the wh-word appears to deviate from its standard meaning.
Łukasz Jędrzejowski, Carla Umbach
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Remnant movement and smuggling in some romance interrogative clauses

2020
This chapter analyzes the syntax of interrogative clauses in French and in some Northern Italian dialects (NIDs), including so-called “wh-in-situ” configurations. It shows that their intricate properties can be derived from standard computations (“wh-movement” and remnant movement of vP/IP to a Top/ground slot) to either the vP Left periphery (“LLP ...
Cecilia Poletto, Jean-Yves Pollock
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Subordinate and interrogative clause negation in Iquito

Linguistic 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 ...
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Verbal Categories in Positive Declarative and Interrogative Clauses

1992
Abstract In this chapter we discuss verbal categories of positive declarative and interrogative clauses shared with relative and juxtaposed sequencing clauses (see §§19.1–2). None of these categories, except root reduplication (§12.8) and the customary aspect (§12.7), can be expressed in most medial clauses (Chapter 18).
Alexandra Y Aikhenvald   +3 more
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Interrogative final endings of noun clause function

Morphology
The purpose of this study is to specifically clarify why the interrogative final endings that form a noun clause equivalents appears only in interrogative final endings rather than in other final endings. Additionally, the non-final function of interrogative final endings was explored, and the necessity of discussing certain interrogative final endings
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