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The Syntactic Status of Subject Clitics: A Problem from Venetan SE‐Constructions

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reopens the discussion on the syntax of subject clitics (SCLs) in Venetan dialects by providing a problematic piece of data and outlining its theoretical consequences. New evidence from se‐constructions in Alto Polesine Venetan (APV) shows that SCLs resist a unitary categorisation even within the same dialect group: in varieties ...
Marco Fioratti, Leonardo Russo Cardona
wiley   +1 more source

The commitment of rhetorical questions

Glossa
Rhetorical questions have received a detailed treatment in semantic studies that defined them in terms of common ground updating, assertion and lack of information seeking.
Shigeru Miyagawa
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Information structure and the accessibility of clausally introduced referents [PDF]

, 2013
This paper will examine the role of various factors in affecting the salience, and hence the accessibility to pronominal reference, of entities introduced into a discourse by a full clause.
Borthen, Kaja, Gundel, Jeanette K., Hegarty, Michael   +2 more
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The acquisition of questions with long-distance dependencies [PDF]

, 2009
A number of researchers have claimed that questions and other constructions with long distance dependencies (LDDs) are acquired relatively early, by age 4 or even earlier, in spite of their complexity.
Anna Theakston, Caroline Rowland, Chomsky Noam, de Villiers Jill, de Villiers Jill, Ewa Dąbrowska, Lust, Philip William, Thornton Rosalind   +8 more
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If‐Conditionals as Arguments in Nineteenth‐Century Women's Instructive Writing in English

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article seeks to analyse the if‐conditionals in a corpus of cookery recipes written by women, namely the Corpus of Women's Instructive Texts in English (1800–1899) (CoWITE19). These texts are original texts written by British and American women between 1800 and 1850.
Margarita‐Esther Sánchez‐Cuervo
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WU-Type Construction in Karaja

Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2000
This paper studies the left periphery of the clause in Karaja, a Macro-Je stock language spoken by about 3,000 people on and around the Bananal Island in Central Brazil.
Maia, Marcus
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Questions with long-distance dependencies: a usage-based perspective [PDF]

, 2008
Attested questions with long-distance dependencies (e.g., What do you think you’re doing?) tend to be quite stereotypical: the matrix clause usually consists of a WH word, the auxiliary do or did, the pronoun you, and the verb think or say, with no ...
Dabrowska, Ewa
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Neutral Forms of Be as Default Forms: The Utility of Underspecification and Blocking in a Welsh Morphosyntactic Phenomenon

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract In Welsh, in certain tenses, unique forms of the verb for ‘be’ are used in positive clauses. These specialised forms of ‘be’ are incompatible with positive main‐clause declarative complementizers, despite their apparent featural compatibility. For most speakers, they are also blocked from if‐clauses; although, I report on data regarding their ...
Frances Dowle
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The pragmatic particle ’áda in Kambaata (Cushitic)

Journal of African Languages and Literatures
This study investigates the morphological makeup, syntactic features and pragmatic functions of ’áda, a pragmatic marker (pm) in Kambaata (Cushitic).
Temesgen Senbeto Wadolo, Shimelis Mazengia   +1 more
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Focused Constituent Interrogatives in Lɛtɛ (Larteh)

Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2010
Lεtε is a South Guan (Kwa, Niger-Congo) language (Lewis, 2009) spoken in only one town: Larteh, located in the southeastern part of Ghana, West Africa.
Mercy Akrofi Ansah
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