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The North Samoyedic interrogative verb meaning ‘say what’
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2020 A cross-linguistically rare interrogative category (i.e., an interrogative verb with the meaning ‘say what’) is observed in the North Samoyedic (Uralic) languages.
Nikolett Mus
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The periphery of vP in the theory of wh-in situ
Glossa, 2021 This article outlines an implementation of Cable’s (2010) Grammar of Q that considers the role played by the periphery of vP, hitherto unexplored in this framework. Empirically, I offer a new example, in a new language family, of a known manifestation of
Caterina Bonan
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Learnability of clause-embedding predicates
, 2020 Some clause-embedding predicates like English "know" and "guess" can take both declarative and interrogative clausal complements (e.g., "Jo knows *that* the circle is to the right" and "Jo knows *whether* the circle is to the right").
Wataru Uegaki, Jennifer Culbertson
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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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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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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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Which Clause Type do You Use in Your Conversation? [PDF]
, 2015 The objective of this article is to discuss the classification of clause type in English Grammar commonly used for either formal or informal conversation.
Suparjan, Suparjan
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Word order variation in interrogative structures of native and non-native French [PDF]
, 1999 Inter-individual variation in the use of direct interrogative structures (N=450) is explored in a corpus of spoken native and non-native French. A quantitative analysis of the data reveals that while non-native speakers seem to avoid non-standard ...
Dewaele, Jean-Marc
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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 (
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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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