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The Syntax and Semantics of Korean Wh-Quantification: Wh-NPIs and Wh-In-Situ

, 2020
This dissertation investigates the syntactic and semantic aspects of long-distance dependency involved in Korean wh-Negative Polarity Items (NPIs). Korean wh-NPIs consist of a wh-item and a focus particle -to meaning `also\u27 or `even\u27.
Lee-Sikka, Yeonju
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Prosody by phase : evidence from focus intonation–Wh-scope correspondence in Japanese

, 2004
Japanese wh-questions always exhibit focus intonation (FI). Furthermore, the domain of FI exhibits a correspondence to the wh-scope. I propose that this phonology-semantics correspondence is a result of the cyclic computation of FI, which is explained ...
Ishihara, Shinichiro
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Wh-questions and extraction asymmetries in Malagasy

, 2001
The languages of the world differ with respect to argument extraction possibilities. In languages such as English, wh-movement is possible from Spec IP and from the complement position, whereas in languages such as Malagasy only extraction from Spec IP ...
Sabel, Joachim
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日本語と中国語のin-situ wh疑問詞に関する対照研究 [PDF]

, 2012
本研究は、言語学の観点から日本語と中国語の疑問詞の統語的特徴と意味を対照し、移動しない疑問詞(in-situ wh-word) の性質を探求する。このような対照研究を通じて、言語の個別性及び普遍性を明らかにすることが目的である。台灣日本語文學會國內20120317~20120317Y臺北 ...
徐佩伶
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Expletives as features

, 2000
Expletives have always been a central topic of theoretical debate and subject to different analyses within the different stages of the Principles and Parameter theory (see Chomsky 1981, 1986, 1995; Lasnik 1992, 1995; Frampton and Gutman 1997; among ...
Sabel, Joachim
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Syntactic Computation as Labelled Deduction: WH a case study

, 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, Kempson, R, Viol, W M, Gabbay, D, Kempson, Ruth, Gabbay, Dov   +5 more
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Position of Wh-Words in Kipsigis Wh-Questions

, 2020
The wh-parameter determines whether the wh-expression can be fronted or not. Studies on a number of languages among them English, Shona, Kiitharaka and Chinese have revealed that different languages use different ways to form wh-questions.
Gatakaa Ann Hidah Kinyua, Chepngetich Anastasia, Anastasia, Chepngetich, Muriungi Peter Kinyua, Kinyua, Muriungi Peter, Hidah Kinyua, Gatakaa Ann   +5 more
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Covert partial wh-movement and the nature of derivations

Glossa, 2016
Wh-movement is commonly thought to be caused by a syntactic probing operation, initiated by an interrogative probe on C, which triggers subsequent movement to the specifier of C.
Hadas Kotek
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Mandarin Chinese wh-in-situ argument-adjunct asymmetry in island sensitivity: Evidence from a formal judgment study. [PDF]

Front Psychol, 2022
Tian Q, Park MK, Yang X.
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Intervention Obviation by Pied-piping in Turkish

Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi
Even in wh-in-situ languages like Turkish, there are configurations where a wh-phrase fails to take scope in-situ above another scopal element (such as negative concord items). These configurations known as intervention configurations can be obviated via
Ömer DEMİROK
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