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Negative Interrogatives and Whatnot [PDF]
Indo-European Linguistics, 2016 The present article examines the attenuation and conversion of outer and inner negations under interrogative scope (interrogative negation). Interrogative scope over outer and inner negations triggers network processes at the interface of syntax, semantics and pragmatics, which may in the long run result in the bleaching of their negating function ...
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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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PRODUCTION OF AFFIRMATIVE, NEGATIVE AND INTERROGATIVE SENTENCES IN SCHIZOPHRENIA
Psycholinguistics in a Modern World, 2021 Language disorder is one of the most significant symptom domains which characterize Schizophrenia Disorder. The aim of the present study considering these language problems is to find out the number of the affirmative, negative and interrogative sentences on schizophrenia patients’ spontaneous speech and reveal whether their depression, doubts and ...
Ayşegül Vural Özcan +1 more
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Deconstructing the discourse: Mitigation in the Supervisory Discourse of Language Teacher Supervisors in Iran [PDF]
Issues in Language Teaching, 2019 This study investigated mitigation in the supervisory discourse of Iranian language teacher supervisors to see what mitigation devices these language teacher supervisors in Iran used to achieve a balance message clarity and politeness when delivering ...
Hessam Agheshteh
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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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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.
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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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Rhetorical questions, relevance and scales
Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 1998 Rhetorical questions, and other varieties of pragmatically conditioned questions, present a challenge for a purely truth-conditional theory of the interpretation of interrogatives.
Gutiérrez Rexach, Javier
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Anglophonia, 2018 This paper endeavours to open new perspectives on the contribution of negative interrogatives to the accommodation strategies used by the speaker in the interactions taking place in the TV debate Question Time (a corpus collected by Laurent Rouveyrol at ...
Pauline Levillain
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L’interro-négative à l’oral en anglais contemporain : enjeux argumentatifs et pragmatiques
Anglophonia, 2016 This paper endeavours to open new perspectives on the analysis of negative interrogatives in spoken American English by considering what is at stake pragmatically and as far as argumentation is concerned in “discourse-in-interaction” after the French ...
Pauline Levillain
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