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Brazilian Portuguese in-situ wh-interrogatives between rhetoric and change
Glossa, 2019 Previous studies of the historical development of partial interrogatives have postulated a change from contexts in which the proposition of the interrogative has been explicitly mentioned in the previous discourse, to contexts in which the proposition is
Malte Rosemeyer
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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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Actual and apparent change in Brazilian Portuguese wh-interrogatives
Language Variation and Change, 2019 Previous studies on the diachrony of wh-interrogation in Brazilian Portuguese have observed a replacement process of ex-situ-wh interrogatives by cleft-wh and in-situ-wh interrogatives in the twentieth century. The present study analyzes almost 19,000 wh-
Malte Rosemeyer
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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 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 +56 more
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Les interrogatives dites rhétoriques au prisme de la théorie d’Antoine Culioli
Anglophonia, 2021 This paper focuses on the so-called rhetorical interrogatives in English, in order to show how the tools of Antoine Culioli’s Theory of Enunciative and Predicative Operations (TEPO) can help to improve their description and characterisation.
Bénédicte Guillaume
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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 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 +8 more
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Syntactic and semantic variations in negative interrogatives: Contracted vs. uncontracted forms
Studies in English Language and EducationThis study investigates the forms and uses of negative interrogatives with auxiliary verb contractions in English, focusing on syntactic and semantic differences.
Khalsiah Khalsiah +3 more
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Review of Economic StudiesAbstract We provide a model of interrogations with two-sided asymmetric information. The suspect knows his status as guilty or innocent and the likely strength of the law enforcer’s evidence, which is informative about the suspect’s status and may also disprove lies.
Ispano, Alessandro, Vida, Péter
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