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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 ...
Cynthia Hansen
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Non-Interrogative Subordinate Wh-Clauses
2023AbstractThis 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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The Interrogative Left Periphery: How a Clause Becomes a Question
Linguistic InquiryQuestion meaning is built up at three points in the interrogative left periphery. An interrogative is differentiated semantically from a declarative at CP. It becomes a request for information by the speaker, directed toward the addressee, at SAP (Speech Act Phrase).
Veneeta Dayal
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Interrogative or Relative Clauses?.
, 1990 "Rivista di Linguistica" 2 In the Indo-European languages, where there is the identity of morphological realisation between interrogative and independent relative pronouns, indirect WH questions and independent relatives are in many cases homophonous. Although the two constructions, interrogative and independent relative, are acknowledged in literature
FAVA, Elisabetta
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On the presuppositional strength of interrogative clauses
Natural Language Semantics, 2021A 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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Clause-type, primary illocution, and mood-like operators in English
Language Sciences, 2006 This paper is about the semantics of English clause-types and of the subsentences (a generic term for subclauses and clause or sentence fragments) that function like clauses. The formal defining characteristics for declarative, interrogative, imperative,
Keith Allan
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Questioning interrogative interpretation in some Indo-European languages
Language Sciences, 1996 In the Indo-European languages, where there is the identity of morphological realisation between interrogative and independent relative pronouns, indirect WH questions and independent relatives are in many cases homophonous.
Elisabetta Fava, FAVA, Elisabetta
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Remnant movement and smuggling in some romance interrogative clauses
2020This 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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