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On the left periphery of ‘optional’ wh-in-situ: Evidence from Greek [PDF]
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi OrientaliA recent generalization about ‘optional’ wh-in-situ states that wh-in-situ questions are blocked in selected contexts, where the only grammatical option is wh-fronting.
Christos Vlachos
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IsoglossThis paper investigates the acceptability of wh in-situ expressions in embedded contexts in French. We report on two experiments that tested the acceptability of wh in-situ and ex-situ in embedded clauses of biclausal direct wh-questions and in indirect
Lena Baunaz, Giuliano Bocci, Ur Shlonsky
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Comparing wh-in-situ and wh-fronting island effects
LinguisticsThis article compares the behavior of island sensitivity in overt and covert (in-situ) wh-dependencies in Mandarin Chinese. We applied a factorial experimental design of islandhood to wh-in-situ and wh-fronting sentences across three island types ...
Ji Xu, Jin Dawei
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Do Persian Native Speakers Prosodically Mark Wh-in-situ Questions? [PDF]
Lang Speech, 2019 It has been shown that prosody contributes to the contrast between declarativity and interro- gativity, notably in interrogative utterances lacking lexico-syntactic features of interrogativity. Accordingly, it may be proposed that prosody plays a role in
Shiamizadeh Z, Caspers J, Schiller NO.
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Syntactic Computation as Labelled Deduction: WH a case study [PDF]
, 2000 This paper addresses the question "Why do WH phenomena occur with the particular cluster of properties observed across languages -- long-distance dependencies, WH-in situ, partial movement constructions, reconstruction, crossover etc." These phenomena ...
Meyer-Viol, Wilfried +2 more
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Ultrafast Chemical Pre-Sodiation of Pseudocapacitive CaV<sub>8</sub>O<sub>20</sub> Anodes for High-Performance Sodium-Ion Capacitors. [PDF]
Adv Sci (Weinh)An ultrafast (2‐minute), gas‐free chemical pre‐sodiation strategy using Na‐benzophenone is developed to compensate for initial sodium loss in calcium vanadate (CaV8O20). Driven by the Ca2+ ‘spectator effect’, the framework enables highly reversible, quasi‐zero‐strain solid‐solution sodium storage, explicitly bypassing destructive conversion reactions ...
Bansal N +7 more
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On wh-movement in Spanish Echo Questions
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2017 This paper examines Spanish echo questions, an understudied phenomenon even in extensively described languages such as English. In particular, it focuses on a very particular type of echo questions, such as those made in response to a previous yes/no ...
Ekaterina Chernova
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The periphery of vP in the theory of wh-in situ
Glossa, 2021 This article outlines an implementation of Cable’s (2010) Grammar of Q that considers the role played by the periphery of vP, hitherto unexplored in this framework. Empirically, I offer a new example, in a new language family, of a known manifestation of
Caterina Bonan
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Island-sensitivity of two different interpretations of why in Chinese
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 It has been assumed that the wh-element weishenme “why” in Chinese has two distinct interpretations: a reason reading, which typically yields yinwei “because”-answers, and a purpose reading, which typically triggers weile “in order to”-answers.
Nayoun Kim, Ziying Li, Jiayi Lu
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Restrictions on wh-in-situ in Kavalan and Amis [PDF]
, 2014 This paper investigates the grammatical properties of wh-in-situ constructions in Kavalan and Amis, two Austronesian languages in Taiwan. In Kavalan, interrogative phrases cannot stay in-situ in the subject position, except for the wh-word that denotes ...
Lin, Dong-yi, Dong-yi Lin
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