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The syntax of orientation shifting: Evidence from English high adverbs [PDF]
, 2014 This paper reviews new data supporting the inclusion of a Speech Act Phrase in the left periphery. Illocutionary and evidential adverbs in English shift orientation from speakers in declarative sentences to addressees in yes-no interrogative sentences ...
Woods, Rebecca
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European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Making sense of the world often requires one to come up with new ideas, including ideas one had previously been unable to think of. How and when should this be done? I propose and defend a norm of rationality linking wondering, belief, and abilities to conceive: one must not both wonder a question and reject all answers to it that one can ...
Michael Deigan
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Grammar: A Complex Structure. A Linguistic Description of Esperanto in Functional Discourse Grammar [PDF]
Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, 2015 Functional Discourse-Grammar or FDG is the latest development in the functional grammar that was initiated by the Dutch linguist Simon Dik (1940-1995). In this paper, the FDG architecture proper is described, including the role of the extra-grammatical ...
Wim Jansesn
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Topics in Linguistics, 2019 This paper describes a corpus-based analysis of subject-auxiliary inversion in both spoken and written English. The focus of the analysis is Chen’s (2013) X Auxiliary Subject construction (XASC), where X codes the fronting of a constituent which triggers
Prado-Alonso Carlos
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Scope assignment: From wh- to QR
Glossa, 2017 This paper develops a theory of scope assignment to wh-phrases as resulting of a process of selective spell-out of copies created from Internal Merge. We show that so-called LF-movement is not a viable option in the current theory of grammar.
George Tsoulas, Norman Yeo
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WH-words are not ‘interrogative’ pronouns : the derivation of interrogative interpretations for constituent questions [PDF]
, 2010 I discuss the status of WH-words for interrogative interpretations, and show that the derivation of constituent questions evolves from a specific interplay of syntactic and semantic representations with pragmatics.
Wiese, Heike
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Governing the Costs and Financial Sustainability Standardization of Italian Universities
Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article investigates the growing role of cost standards and financial sustainability procedures in the governance of public universities, focusing on the Italian higher education sector. Although the neoliberal transformation of universities and the spread of performance‐based management have been widely studied, limited research has ...
Massimo Sargiacomo +4 more
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Online tutoring platforms (OTPs) are an increasingly popular way for learners to study languages and for teachers to earn money. On many OTPs, individual teachers are responsible for attracting potential students via self‐branding. While scholarship has examined OTP teachers’ self‐branding practices and identified some of the most popular self‐
Wenjing Zeng, Nate Ming Curran
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Explicating Choice of MTN® Advertising Frameworks in Nigerian Print Media
Ethical Lingua: Journal of Language Teaching and Literature, 2020 The meaning that a communicator intends to make determines the choice of the lexemes that the individual employs. Thus, this study explored the textual choices of MTN advertisements; as such entities were utilised to generate meaning potential.
Taofeek O Dalamu, Ogunlusi Gbenga
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LTAG semantics for questions [PDF]
, 2004 This papers presents a compositional semantic analysis of interrogatives clauses in LTAG (Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar) that captures the scopal properties of wh- and nonwh-quantificational elements.
Babko-Malaya, Olga +2 more
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