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The prepositional interrogative clause

Celtica, 2019
This paper traces the development of a syntactic structure in the modern Gaelic languages in which an interrogative pronoun is followed by an inflected preposition, e.g. Mod. Ir. cé leis a raibh tú ag caint?, Scot. Gael. cò ris a bha thu a’ bruidhinn? (‘with whom were you speaking?’).
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7 Polar Interrogative, Responsive, and Imperative Clause Types

2020
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Verbal Categories in Positive Declarative and Interrogative Clauses

1992
Abstract In this chapter we discuss verbal categories of positive declarative and interrogative clauses shared with relative and juxtaposed sequencing clauses (see §§19.1–2). None of these categories, except root reduplication (§12.8) and the customary aspect (§12.7), can be expressed in most medial clauses (Chapter 18).
Alexandra Y Aikhenvald, Jacklyn Yuamali Ala, Pauline Agnes, Yuaneng Luma Laki   +3 more
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Remnant movement and smuggling in some romance interrogative clauses

2020
This chapter analyzes the syntax of interrogative clauses in French and in some Northern Italian dialects (NIDs), including so-called “wh-in-situ” configurations. It shows that their intricate properties can be derived from standard computations (“wh-movement” and remnant movement of vP/IP to a Top/ground slot) to either the vP Left periphery (“LLP ...
Cecilia Poletto, Jean-Yves Pollock
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Varieties of non-interrogative subordinatewh-clauses

2023
AbstractIn the introductory chapter we provide an overview over non-interrogative (and subordinate) uses of wh-clauses introduced by manner, temporal, and locative expressions—English how, when, and where. We focus, in particular, on wh-clauses in which the meaning of the wh-word appears to deviate from its standard meaning.
Łukasz Jędrzejowski, Carla Umbach
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A question of strength: on NPIs in interrogative clauses

Linguistics and Philosophy, 2007
We observe that the facts pertaining to the acceptability of negative polarity items (henceforth, NPIs) in interrogative environments complex than previously noted. Since Klima [Klima, E. (1964). In J. Fodor & J. Katz (Eds.), The structure of language.
Guerzoni, Elena, Sharvit, Yael
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[Handwritten notes on interrogative clauses]

Handwritten notes on interrogative clauses.
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Interrogative or Relative Clauses?.

1990
"Rivista di Linguistica" 2 In the Indo-European languages, where there is the identity of morphological realisation between interrogative and independent relative pronouns, indirect WH questions and independent relatives are in many cases homophonous. Although the two constructions, interrogative and independent relative, are acknowledged in literature
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Interrogative final endings of noun clause function

Morphology
The purpose of this study is to specifically clarify why the interrogative final endings that form a noun clause equivalents appears only in interrogative final endings rather than in other final endings. Additionally, the non-final function of interrogative final endings was explored, and the necessity of discussing certain interrogative final endings
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English exclamative clauses and interrogative degree modification

2017
Abstract I here explore the relationship between interrogative degree modification ( What a mess! ; How awful! ) and exclamative clauses like What a wonderful conference we had or
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