Regarding negative interrogatives in American English as argumentative structures
Globe, 2015 This article investigates the use of negative interrogatives in English and provides new support as to why they can be regarded as argumentative structures (Heritage, 2002).
Pauline Levillain
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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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A Structural and Pragmatic Investigation of Conducive Interrogatives in Contemporary Persian Conversations [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2022 : Not only do the interrogatives characteristically serve the pragmatic function of questioning, they are also used for a variety of other functions.
Soleiman Ghaderi
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Investigating Negative Wh-Constructions in Persian [PDF]
زبان پژوهی, 2021 INTRODUCTIONThe present study examines a specific type of constructions that are not intended to get information or receive an answer and the speaker confirms his/her denial or the impossibility of the case; these types of constructions are called ...
Hengameh Vaezi, Akram Razavizadeh
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How the Meaning is Formed in Surah Nazeat from the Perspective of Structuralist Theory [PDF]
پژوهش نامه معارف قرآنی, 2023 Criticizing texts based on structuralist theory is something that has recently become popular in scientific circles, and according to it, from the smallest audio and musical signs to the biggest, which are words and how they are put together, is ...
Zahra Jalili
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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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Bantu negative verbs: a typological-comparative investigation of form, function and distribution
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2023 This paper investigates the use of verbs in the expression of negation across Bantu. The development of erstwhile lexical verbs into markers of negation is an understudied yet widespread phenomenon across the language family.
Rasmus Bernander +2 more
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Imperatives in Heritage Spanish: Lexical Access and Lexical Frequency Effects
Languages, 2023 Along with declaratives and interrogatives, imperatives are one of the three major clause types of human language. In Spanish, imperative verb forms present poor morphology, yet complex syntax.
Julio César López Otero
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ENGLISH INDEFINITE PRONOUN ANY AND ITS SERBIAN TRANSLATION EQUIVALENTS
Filolog, 2023 This study aims to analyse a contrastive relation between the English indefinite pronoun any and its Serbian equivalents. Beside the simple pronoun any, the study also focuses on how its compounds with other words – nouns (-body, -thing), numerals (-one)
Irena M. Pantić
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Social Restrictions in the COVID-19 Pandemic As a Traumatic Experience: Psycholinguistic Markers
East European Journal of Psycholinguistics, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all aspects of life including psychological well-being. Social restrictions, changes in habits, and permanent stay at home might have a negative impact on the psychological state of people.
Natalia Kostruba
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