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Factive islands and questions about propositions

Natural Language Semantics, 2022
In this squib, I evaluate the contradiction analysis (Abrusán in Natural Language Semantics 19(3):257–321, 2011, in Weak island semantics, 2014) and the necessary infelicity analysis (Oshima in Washio et al. (eds.), New frontiers in artificial intelligence, 2007; Schwarz and Simonenko in Natural Language Semantics 26(3–4):253–279, 2018b) of factive ...
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Island Populations: The Threshold Question

2000
Abstract In spite of the fact that this problem of determining critical community size in terms of the relevant epidemiological parameters has now been around for more than 30 years there is still no satisfactory solution …. The concept of critical community size becomes extremely important in the context of global eradication projects….
A D Cliff, P Haggett, M R Smallman-Raynor   +2 more
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Q-particles and islands in Sinhala wh- and polar questions

Acta Linguistica Academica, 2022
AbstractThis paper is concerned with the Q-particledəin Sinhala wh-questions and polar questions. Previous approaches propose a two-legged semantic dependency: (i) the lower leg projects a set of alternatives and (ii) the upper leg forms a choice function dependency. The contribution of the present paper is two-fold.
Maribel Romero, Erlinde Meertens
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Island Populations: The Virgin Soil Question

2000
Abstract The Revd J. Williams, in his interesting work, says that the first intercourse between natives and Europeans, ‘is invariably attended with the introduction of fever, dysentery, or some other disease, which carries off numbers of people.
A D Cliff, P Haggett, M R Smallman-Raynor   +2 more
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Semantics of DP Islands: The Case of Questions

Journal of Semantics, 2015
This paper provides a semantic-pragmatic answer to the question of why some definite DPs are islands for wh-subextraction while others are not. While it was suggested as early as in Chomsky (1973) that the key to the problem are differences between determiners involved, there has been no analysis which would be based on independently attested ...
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The floating Island: change of paradigm on the Taiwan question

Journal of Contemporary China, 2004
China and Taiwan, as well as the US, have failed to adapt new practices in response to the paradigmatic changes in the sources and nature of the China–Taiwan conflict. Reflecting the tremendous political and social changes in Taiwan, China, and the world that have occurred during the past 10–15 years, the most prominent source of the China–Taiwan ...
Carol Lee Hamrin, Zheng Wang *
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Questions and syntactic islands in Tundra Yukaghir

2014
No island effects are observable in Tundra Yukaghir questions, which are possible in virtually all syntactic environments. It is argued that this feature of Tundra Yukaghir relates to its capability of explicitly marking focus domains. If a question word occurs in a syntactic island, the whole island is morphologically treated as a focus domain.
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Shemya Island and the Question of Inland Sites

2008
During the July 2002 excavation of sewer lines at Eareckson Air Station, two prehistoric midden deposits containing shell, bone, whalebone, stone and bone artifacts, and human remains were exposed. The Air Force Remote Sites archaeologist, Karlene Leeper, halted the work until archaeologists could determine whether the remains represented an in situ ...
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Questions of identity : New Zealand born and island born Pacific island Polynesians : two populations?

1989
This thesis is an investigation into the structure and characteristics of the Pacific Island Polynesians resident in New Zealand at the time of enumeration for the 1986 Census of Population and Dwellings. The underlying motivation for the study stems from the observation that at that time approximately half of this population was in fact New Zealand ...
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Romanian echo questions and islands: An empirical study

2012
Benedec, A. (2012). Romanian echo questions and islands: An empirical study. (MA Thesis).
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