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A question of strength: on NPIs in interrogative clauses
Linguistics and Philosophy, 2007We observe that the facts pertaining to the acceptability of negative polarity items (henceforth, NPIs) in interrogative environments complex than previously noted. Since Klima [Klima, E. (1964). In J. Fodor & J. Katz (Eds.), The structure of language.
Guerzoni, Elena, Sharvit, Yael
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Varieties of non-interrogative subordinatewh-clauses
2023AbstractIn 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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Verbal Categories in Positive Declarative and Interrogative Clauses
1992Abstract 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).
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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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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 final endings of noun clause function
MorphologyThe 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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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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The functions of grammaticalized complement-taking-predicate clauses in interrogatives: a typology
Text & TalkAbstract Grammaticalized complement-taking-predicate (CTP) clauses like I think have been much studied in declaratives but not in interrogatives. We propose a typology of the grammatical functions that these CTP-clauses can convey, i.e., polarity bias, polarity reversal ...
Jiqiang Lu, Kristin Davidse
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