L2 acquisition of Wh-interrogatives at the syntax-discourse interface: interface hypothesis again [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] [PDF]
F1000Research, 2023 This study sets out to answer one major question: do linguistic phenomena relating to syntax-discourse interface constitute difficulty for Yemeni learners of English?
Mohammed Shormani
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Shaming interrogatives: Admonishments, the social psychology of emotion, and discursive practices of behaviour modification in family mealtimes. [PDF]
Br J Soc Psychol, 2020 This paper contributes to the study of admonishments, the operation of shaming in family interaction, and more broadly presses the virtue of a discursive psychological reconsideration of the social psychology of emotion.
Potter J, Hepburn A.
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Open Linguistics, 2018 The present paper analyzes the discourse-pragmatic function of introducing Spanish qué ‘what’- interrogatives with the concessive connective pero ‘but’.
Ehmer Oliver, Rosemeyer Malte
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Multiple wh-interrogatives in child heritage Romanian: On-line comprehension and production [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 This study compared the online comprehension and the production of multiple interrogatives in 18 Romanian-English bilingual children aged 6;0–9;2 (MAGE = 8;0) living in the UK who have Romanian as heritage language (L1) and English as majority language ...
Anamaria Bentea +2 more
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La perifèria dreta de les interrogatives en català i en espanyol: interaccions entre sintaxi i prosòdia [PDF]
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2013 S’ha destacat en la bibliografia que les oracions interrogatives del castellà i del català es comporten de manera ben diferent respecte a la inversió subjecte-verb: mentre aquelles permeten la inversió VS ‘clàssica’ i, en especial, l’ordre VSO, aquestes ...
Sílvia Planas-Morales, Xavier Villalba
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Pro-drop in interrogatives and declaratives.
Linguistik Online, 2019 While there has been a substantial body of research on the asymmetry between main and subordinate clauses in terms of the licensing of pro-drop, potential differences between types of unembedded clause have received much less attention – despite the fact
Federica Cognola, George Walkden
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A Structural and Pragmatic Investigation of Conducive Interrogatives in Contemporary Persian Conversations [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2022 : Not only do the interrogatives characteristically serve the pragmatic function of questioning, they are also used for a variety of other functions.
Soleiman Ghaderi
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Interpreting high negation in Negative Interrogatives: the role of the Other
Linguistics Vanguard, 2022 This paper presents an account of the peculiar properties of Negative Interrogatives (NI). In uttering Don’t you speak Italian?, the speakers is biased towards the underlying positive proposition, expects a positive answer, and seeks a confirmation of ...
P. Larrivée, A. Mari
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Vocative, where do you hang out in wh-interrogatives?
The Linguistic Review, 2022 This paper provides new insights into the analysis of vocative structures that co-occur with a sentence by bridging two previously independent domains of linguistic research: wh-interrogatives and vocatives.
Laura González López, Svenja Schmid
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Eesti keele otseste eriküsilausete sõnajärje aspekte
Keel ja Kirjandus, 2023 Estonian is a verb-second (V2) language: in certain types of sentences, the finite verb tends to be the second constituent. The V2 feature of Estonian is most likely to have developed under Germanic influence.
Heete Sahkai +2 more
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