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Cadernos de Estudos Linguísticos, 2021 In this paper, we investigate the effect of information structure on word order in Italian and Peninsular Spanish ‘why’-interrogatives, and whether these two languages differ from each other. To this end, we conducted two empirical studies. In a parallel
Svenja Schmid +2 more
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Geophysical Journal International, 2018 ISSN:0956 ...
Richard Arnold, Andrew Curtis
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Cº realizations along the left edge across English and Spanish
Languages, 2023 This paper investigates the lexicalization of the complementizer that/que in English and Spanish varieties in different contexts along the left edge of the clause.
Julio Villa-García
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High and low uniqueness in singular wh-interrogatives
, 2021 While simple singular wh-interrogatives carry a uniqueness presupposition, this is not so when they contain possibility modals. Hirsch & Schwarz (2019) account for this contrast by assuming (i) that questions can have multiple maximally informative true ...
F. Kobayashi, V. Rouillard
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Functional gestures as morphemes: Some evidence from the languages of Southern Italy
Glossa, 2023 Recently, gestures have been a topic of much interest in formal linguistics, especially with respect to their semantic contribution (Ebert & Ebert 2014; Schlenker 2018a; Esipova 2019a; i.a.).
Valentina Colasanti
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Interrogatives as relativization markers in Indo-European
Diachronica, 2020 The use of interrogative pronouns as relative clause markers is often mentioned as a typical feature of European languages. This study presents an empirical approach to the distribution of interrogative pronouns as relative clause markers in time and
Sandra Auderset
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Question Nouns and Clause-Typing in Yoruba
Lingual, 2023 Interrogative sentences are deployed to perform speech acts of asking questions or making requests. Interestingly, the syntax of interrogatives in Yorùbá has attracted the attention of many researchers in the language (Ìl??rí, 2010: ?lá?rewájú & Táíwò ...
Emmanuel Omoniyi OLANREWAJU
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Les interrogatives partielles dans un corpus de théâtre contemporain
Langages, 2020 Cet article a pour objectif d’examiner les interrogatives issues de pieces contemporaines du CoDiF. Leur typologie est comparee a celle de corpus de dialogues a l’oral spontane (Eslo2-repas).
F. Lefeuvre
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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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Asynchronous grammaticalization: V1-conditionals in present-day English and German [PDF]
, 2015 The present paper contrasts verb-first (= V1-)conditionals in written usage in present-day English and German. Based on the hypothesis that V1-protases originated in independent interrogatives and then grammaticalized as conditional subordinate clauses ...
Leuschner, Torsten, Van den Nest, Daan
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