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From northern Italian to Asian wh-in situ: A theory of low focus movement
Isogloss, 2021 The mainstream literature on the Romance dialects of northern Italy has explained the morphosyntax of clause-internal wh-elements in answer-seeking interrogatives as either the result of interrogative movement into the lower portion of the high left ...
Caterina Bonan
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Prosody, clause typing, and wh-in-situ: Evidence from Mandarin
Laboratory Phonology, 2020 This paper examines the use of prosody for marking upcoming linguistic material in speech production and for anticipating them in speech perception. More specifically, it examines whether in the absence of any overt morphosyntactic cues in the beginning ...
Jenny Doetjes +3 more
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The Distribution of Wh-word in Single Wh-Questions in Persian [PDF]
زبان پژوهی, 2019 By investigating the distribution of wh-word insingle Wh-questions in Persian through a qualitative method in terms of the theory of Derivational Approach (Epstein et al., 1998) and Feature-Free Syntax (Boeckx, 2015) we intend to explain why wh-word is ...
Ahmadreza Sharifipur shirazi +1 more
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Wh-question formation in Lokạạ
Journal of African Languages and Literatures, 2023 This paper discusses wh-questions in the Benue-Congo language, Lokạạ. The different strategies of wh-question formation are examined. It is observed that in addition to the ex-situ and in-situ strategies, the language allows partial wh-movement under ...
Mary Amaechi
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A continuation semantics of interrogatives that accounts for Baker's ambiguity [PDF]
, 2002 Wh-phrases in English can appear both raised and in-situ. However, only in-situ wh-phrases can take semantic scope beyond the immediately enclosing clause.
Shan, Chung-chieh
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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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Wh-questions in French and English [PDF]
, 2010 As opposed to English, French wh-questions can take a wide variety of forms. I identify four basic patterns: (a) wh- in situ: Vous êtes allés où?; (b) wh- raised, verb in situ: Où vous êtes allés?; (c) est-ce que insertion: Où est-ce que vous êtes allés?;
P. Boucher
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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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