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Wh-Interrogative Clauses in Istro-Romanian
LanguagesThis paper focuses on the syntax of interrogative clauses in Istro-Romanian. The aim is to determine the parametric settings for V-to-C, subject placement (SVO or VSO) and the target for constituent movement under discourse triggers.
Ramona Cătălina Corbeanu +1 more
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Natural syntax : English interrogative main clauses
Linguistica, 2007 Natural Syntax is a developing deductive theory, a branch of Naturalness Theory. The naturalnessjudgements are couched in naturalness scales, whichfollow from the basic parameters (or «axioms») listed at the beginning of the paper.
Janez Oresnik
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Between rhetorical questions and information requests: A versatile interrogative clause in Estonian
Open Linguistics, 2023 This article investigates the pragmatic and functional aspects of an interrogative question pattern in Estonian: questions introduced by the adjective huvitav (‘interesting’).
Amon Marri
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Roots of V-to-C Movement in Romance
Domínios de Lingu@gem, 2022 The paper investigates the syntactic structure of wh-clauses in late Latin. The results show that, in sentences with a wh-phrase as direct object, the interrogative operator reaches FocP in the left periphery, with the finite verb raising to the Foc head.
André Antonelli
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Imperative in Interrogatives in Estonian (Kihnu), Latvian and Livonian; pp. 81-93 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2011 The Estonian subdialect Kihnu, Latvian and Kuronian Livonian share a type of interrogative containing morphemes whose primary function is to mark 3rd person imperatives.
Petar Kehayov +2 more
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F1000Research, 2021 To evaluate the development of children’s writing ability, it is necessary not only to examine quantitative indices such as the dependency distance, but also to inquiry the types of structures they use. We conducted clause boundary labeling using Support
Mizuho Imada +3 more
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Les questions en anglais : une approche cognitive
Corela, 2019 This article analyses questions in English from a Cognitive Linguistics perspective. The main kinds of question are discussed as well as the various structures used to express them: main interrogative clauses, both closed and open, tag questions ...
Jérôme Puckica
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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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Mood and Modality in Interpersonal Meaning of Joseph Robinette Biden Victory Speech
Indonesian Journal of Educational Research and Review, 2023 Speech involves the articulation of one's ideas and emotions. Politicians must possess the skill to effectively utilize language. Prior research underscores the significance of studying the political language, as it empowers individuals to grasp how ...
Devi Sari Panggabean +2 more
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Yes or no, or how to answer a negative question
Linguistica, 2016 This paper deals with answers to negative yes-no questions, focusing on data from Czech. It is shown that answering particles can express both positive and negative answers to negative questions, but that their choice is not free.
Hana Gruet-Skrabalova
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