La perifèria dreta de les interrogatives en català i en espanyol: interaccions entre sintaxi i prosòdia [PDF]
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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Richard Arnold, Andrew Curtis
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Asynchronous grammaticalization: V1-conditionals in present-day English and German [PDF]
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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Master Questions, Student Questions, and Genuine Questions: A Performative Analysis of Questions in Chan Encounter Dialogues [PDF]
I want to know whether Chan masters and students depicted in classical Chan transmission literature can be interpreted as asking open (or what I will call “genuine”) questions.
Dickman, Nathan Eric
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A continuation semantics of interrogatives that accounts for Baker's ambiguity [PDF]
Wh-phrases in English can appear both raised and in-situ. However, only in-situ wh-phrases can take semantic scope beyond the immediately enclosing clause.
Shan, Chung-chieh
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This paper readdresses one of the most conspicuous syntactic traits of varieties of Caribbean Spanish that has been on the research agenda ever since its detection almost a hundred years ago: the preverbal occurrence of subjects in interrogatives with a ...
Michael Zimmermann
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Utterance Signaling and Tonal Levels in Dominican Spanish Declaratives and Interrogatives
This paper examines the tonal patterns of sentences in Dominican Spanish produced in response to three pragmatic intents: declaratives, absolute interrogatives, and pronominal interrogatives.
Erik Willis
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Changement grammatical et discursif en français multiculturel de la région parisienne : éléments de comparaison [PDF]
Cet article cherche à comparer la variation et le changement dans deux domaines linguistiques, à savoir la grammaire et le discours. Il présente les résultats du projet « Multicultural London English – Multicultural Paris French » et s’interroge sur les ...
Secova, Maria
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THE ACQUISITION OF ENGLISH MULTIPLE INTERROGATIVES BY INDONESIAN SPEAKERS
: This paper investigates the acquisition of English multiple interrogatives such as Who did what? by advanced learners of English whose first language is Indonesian. The underlying functional feature of multiple interrogatives is multiple focus features,
Eri Kurniawan
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‘Embu’ Wh- questions in Cypriot Greek: A comparative study
This paper proposes a novel syntactic analysis for embu Wh- questions in Cypriot Greek; a Wh- question variant which is similar to the est-ce que interrogatives in French and the é que interrogatives in European Portuguese.
Antri Kanikli, George Tsoulas
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