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A continuation semantics of interrogatives that accounts for Baker's ambiguity [PDF]
, 2002 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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Les emplois du curseur Koo en Hawsa
Studies in African Linguistics, 1985 Nous avons essaye de montrer que les divers emplois de la se ramenent a une seule operation: particule hawsa koo (prefixe a des morphemes d'origine premiere section ou koo interrogative) marque Ie parcours individue qui consiste a passer en revue tous ...
Mahaman Bachir Attouman
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Isogloss, 2020 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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A miks sa torusse ei räägi? Miks-küsilausetega tehtavad suhtlustegevused argitelefonivestlustes
Eesti Rakenduslingvistika Ühingu Aastaraamat, 2017 "Social actions conducted by why-interrogatives in Estonian everyday telephone conversations" This paper analyses interrogatives formed with the why pronoun in Estonian everyday telephone conversations.
Kirsi Laanesoo
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Pronouns, Interrogatives, and (Quichua-Media Lengua) Code-Switching: The Eyes Have It
Languages, 2020 This study examines the processing of two putatively problematic intra-sentential code-switching configurations, following subject pronouns and interrogatives, in a bilingual speech community in which there are no confounding grammatical differences. The
John M. Lipski
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Changement grammatical et discursif en français multiculturel de la région parisienne : éléments de comparaison [PDF]
, 2017 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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Utterance Signaling and Tonal Levels in Dominican Spanish Declaratives and Interrogatives
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2007 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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‘Embu’ Wh- questions in Cypriot Greek: A comparative study
Glossa, 2019 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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Knowledge-how: Interrogatives and Free Relatives [PDF]
, 2017 It has been widely accepted since Stanley and Williamson (2001) that the only linguistically acceptable semantic treatments for sentences of the form ‘S knows how to V’ involve treating the wh-complement ‘how to V’ as an interrogative phrase, denoting a ...
Habgood-Coote, Joshua
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THE ACQUISITION OF ENGLISH MULTIPLE INTERROGATIVES BY INDONESIAN SPEAKERS
Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2013 : 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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