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Clause Types (and Clausal Complementation) in Germanic
, 2022 Clauses can fulfill various functions in discourse; in most cases, the form of the clause is indicative of its discourse function. The discourse functions (such as making statements or asking questions) are referred to as speech acts, while the ...
Bacskai-Atkari, J., Julia Bacskai-Atkari
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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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Managing Competency‐Based Resistance in Video‐Mediated L2 Peer Feedback Sessions
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Though there is growing empirical evidence on managing advice resistance as an institutional work of higher status party with superior epistemic knowledge domain (e.g., trainer) across diverse settings (e.g., supervision meetings), there is still a lack of research on how second language (L2) learners handle peer resistance in real time once ...
Kübra Ekşi
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Searching for a universal constraint on the possible denotations of clause-embedding predicates [PDF]
, 2020 We propose a new universal constraint on the relationship between the meaning of a clause-embedding predicate when it takes an interrogative complement and its meaning when it takes a declarative complement.
Roelofsen, F.; id_orcid +7 more
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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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Communicative Drills: The Impact of Communicative Intent on Oral Proficiency
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This exploratory study investigated the role of communicative intent in second language (L2) oral practice by comparing communicative and meaningful drills. English language learners played a game designed to elicit repeated use of the second conditional.
Jonathan Serfaty
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