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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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Self-Representation in English Spoken Discourse: Corpus-Based Pragmatic-and-Sociolinguistic Approach
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2018 The paper is devoted to a corpus-based pragmatic-social-and-linguistic analysis of the tag clause that is considered to be a form of discursive self-representation.
Elena Yu. Ilyinova, Larisa A. Kochetova
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Question Nouns and Clause-Typing in Yoruba
Lingual, 2023 Interrogative sentences are deployed to perform speech acts of asking questions or making requests. Interestingly, the syntax of interrogatives in Yorùbá has attracted the attention of many researchers in the language (Ìl??rí, 2010: ?lá?rewájú & Táíwò ...
Emmanuel Omoniyi OLANREWAJU
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زبان کاوی کاربردی, 2023 Constituent interrogatives are employed to request for more than yes/no answers from interlocutors. Extant works on constituent interrogatives in Yorùbá are yet to pay adequate attention to the syntactic behaviour of question nouns (QNs), question verbs (
Adedire Adekunle +1 more
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L’interro-négative à l’oral en anglais contemporain : enjeux argumentatifs et pragmatiques
Anglophonia, 2016 This paper endeavours to open new perspectives on the analysis of negative interrogatives in spoken American English by considering what is at stake pragmatically and as far as argumentation is concerned in “discourse-in-interaction” after the French ...
Pauline Levillain
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Cº realizations along the left edge across English and Spanish
Languages, 2023 This paper investigates the lexicalization of the complementizer that/que in English and Spanish varieties in different contexts along the left edge of the clause.
Julio Villa-García
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'Should conditionals be emergent ...': asyndetic conditionals in English and German as a Challenge to Grammaticalization Research [PDF]
, 2010 The present article examines asyndetic or conjunctionless conditionals in German and English. According to Jespersen’s Model (1940), this construction arose diachronically from a paratactic discourse sequence with a polar interrogative, but more recently
Van den Nest, Daan
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
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Indonesian Interrogative Sentences: a Study of Forms and Functions [PDF]
, 2016 This study examines Indonesian interrogative sentence problems by focusing on issues of forms and functions. The data used in this analysis are interrogative sentences in Indonesian language that are currently used in oral and in interethnic ...
Lindawati, L. (Lindawati)
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Relative Constructions in Classical/Epic Sanskrit
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract While it is widely recognised that Sanskrit shows two major types of relative construction – one relative–correlative, the other similar to postnominal relative clauses in languages like English – it has not been established what the crucial syntactic distinctions are between these types, given the wide range of syntactic variation found in ...
John J. Lowe +2 more
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