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English exclamative clauses and interrogative degree modification
2017Abstract I here explore the relationship between interrogative degree modification (What a mess!; How awful!) and exclamative clauses like What a wonderful conference we had or How wonderful this conference was. The former are usually viewed as derived from the latter by means of ellipsis.
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On the similarities and differences between indirect interrogative clauses and relative clauses
2021This article deals with cases of overlap between indirect interrogative clauses and relative clauses in Latin. After overviewing the status quaestionis, attention is paid to factors involved in creating ambiguity, such as the semantic class of governing verbs, the type of indirect interrogative clauses and relative clauses that can overlap, the role of
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Interrogative clauses in English and the social economics of questions
Journal of Pragmatics, 2017Abstract 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 ...
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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
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Pas (point) without ne in interrogative clauses
Journal of French Language Studies, 1993AbstractOld and Middle French interrogative sentences of the type sez tu pas? have often been interpreted, erroneously, as providing evidence for the early dropping of ne as in modern je sais pas. The construction occurs most widely in Old and early Middle French with point (occasionally pas, mie) and the particle had a positive or ‘potential’ value (e.
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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).
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Experience and sentence processing: Statistical learning and relative clause comprehension
Cognitive Psychology, 2009Maryellen C Macdonald +1 more
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