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Sentential Word Order and the Syntax of Question Particles [PDF]

, 2010
Polar question particles in languages with VO word order pose a problem for the otherwise robust Final-Over-Final Constraint, which rules out a head-final phrase immediately dominating a head-initial phrase (Holmberg 2000).
Bailey, Laura R.
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SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS OF GWOROG (KAGORO) CLAUSE STRUCTURE

, 2022
This paper entitled “ Syntactic Analysis of Kagoro (Gworog) Clause Structure” is a descriptive study targeted at identifying how the speakers of Gworog manipulate structural elements of the basic clause of their language to achieve their desired goals ...
Samuel, Yahaya Daniel, Kwasau, Hannatu
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Formal modeling considerations for independent clause with implicit and vacant subject in some germanic languages [PDF]

, 2019
There have been considered independent clauses with implicit and vacant subject, which refer to narrative and interrogative sentences with ascertained subject, as well as to interrogative sentences with non-ascertained subject. The languages particularly
Shumkov, Аndrei
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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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Islam at the monastery: on infinity as subtractive truth L'islam au monastère : de l'infini comme vérité soustractive

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
wiley   +1 more source

Formal modeling considerations for dependent clause with vacant subject in some Germanic languages [PDF]

, 2018
Dependent clauses with vacant subject are considered in contraposition to independent clauses with vacant subject, which refer to interrogative sentences with unknown subject being sought by means of compulsory interrogative element.
Shumkov, Andrei
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From Nominalisation to Passive in Old Tibetan: Reconstructing Grammatical Meaning in an Extinct Language1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
wiley   +1 more source

Negation and polarity-reversing effect of an interrogative marker in Pwo Karen [PDF]

, 2022
In Pwo Karen, main clauses are negated by ʔé, subordinate clauses by lə ... bá, and imperative clauses by ləxì̱. In addition to these negators, the expression bá ʁâ, which consists of the verb bá ‘be right’ and the interrogative marker ʁâ, can be used as
KATO, Atsuhiko
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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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