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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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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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When “Questions“ are not Questions. Inferences and Conventionalization in Spanish But-Prefaced Partial Interrogatives

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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Exploiting microvariation: How to make the best of your incomplete data [PDF]

, 2018
n this article we discuss the use of big corpuses or databases as a first step for qualitative analysis of linguistic data. We concentrate on ASIt, the Syntactic Atlas of Italy, and take into consideration the different types of dialectal data that can ...
Garzonio, Jacopo, Poletto, Cecilia
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Scope assignment: From wh- to QR

Glossa, 2017
This paper develops a theory of scope assignment to wh-phrases as resulting of a process of selective spell-out of copies created from Internal Merge. We show that so-called LF-movement is not a viable option in the current theory of grammar.
George Tsoulas, Norman Yeo
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The specifier–head relationship: negation and French subject proforms [PDF]

, 2007
This article1 and the three others in this thematic collection are about heads and specifiers, the relationship between them, and how this relationship can change over time.
Adger, Adger, Anderson, Antoine, Auger, Auger, Auger, Baltin, Barbosa, Benincà, Cann, Cardinaletti, Cardinaletti, Chomksy, Chomsky, Cinque, Cinque, Cinque, Cormack, Coveney, Cyrille-Thomas, De Cat, DeGraff, Duffield, Emonds, Goosse, Haegeman, Haegeman, Haegeman, Hansen, Hulk, Jackendoff, Jacobs, Jespersen, Jones, Koopman, Koopman, Martin, Moritz, Nadasdi, Polletto, Pollock, Queffélec, Rizzi, Rizzi, Rizzi, Roberge, Roberts, Rowlett, Rowlett, Rowlett, Schapansky, Taraldsen, Willis, Zanuttini, Zeijlstra, Zwicky   +56 more
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A magyar nyelv tagadószós eldöntendő kérdő mondatainak jelentéséhez [PDF]

Jelentés és Nyelvhasználat, 2016
On the interpretation of negative polar interrogatives in Hungarian *** The aim of the paper is the study of issues related to the interpretation of Hungarian negative polar interrogatives.
Gyuris, Beáta
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The acquisition of questions with long-distance dependencies [PDF]

, 2009
A number of researchers have claimed that questions and other constructions with long distance dependencies (LDDs) are acquired relatively early, by age 4 or even earlier, in spite of their complexity.
Anna Theakston, Caroline Rowland, Chomsky Noam, de Villiers Jill, de Villiers Jill, Ewa Dąbrowska, Lust, Philip William, Thornton Rosalind   +8 more
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Syntactic and semantic variations in negative interrogatives: Contracted vs. uncontracted forms

Studies in English Language and Education
This study investigates the forms and uses of negative interrogatives with auxiliary verb contractions in English, focusing on syntactic and semantic differences.
Khalsiah Khalsiah, Burhanuddin Yasin, Muhammad Yusuf, Fatmawati Fatmawati   +3 more
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The Violation of Cooperative Principles on Students\u27 Responses Toward Teacher Questions in Tefl Class [PDF]

, 2016
Questioning is mostly conducted in learning process. As the reasons, by giving questions, teacher engages communicative interaction with students in classroom. But sometimes the communication can run effectively.
Sri Agung, Winantu Kurnianingtyas
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