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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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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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"Wh"-phrases and "wh"-in-situ in Late Archaic Chinese
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2021 In this paper I explore wh-phrases and wh-in-situ in Late Archaic Chinese (LAC). Simplex and complex wh-phrases in LAC can be divided into eleven semantic categories.
Aiqing Wang
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Involvement of the anterior insula and frontal operculum during wh-question comprehension of wh-in-situ Korean language. [PDF]
PLoS ONEIn this research, we employed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine the neurological basis for understanding wh-questions in wh-in-situ languages such as Korean, where wh-elements maintain their original positions instead of moving ...
Haeil Park, Jiseon Baik, Hae-Jeong Park
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Processing long-distance wh-dependency in the Kyengsang dialect of Korean: an ERP study [PDF]
Frontiers in Human NeuroscienceKyengsang Dialect Korean (KDK) is a wh-in-situ language that morphologically distinguishes content (or wh-) and polar questions via sentence-final question particles (QPs).
Wonil Chung, Keonwoo Koo
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In-situ and ex-situ wh-question constructions in Moro [PDF]
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 2014 This paper addresses the formation of wh-questions in Thetogovela Moro, a Kordofanian language spoken in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan. Moro has both in-situ and ex-situ wh-questions, but exhibits a subject/non-subject asym- metry: while non-subjects may employ either construction, subjects must appear in the ex-situ form.
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On the left periphery of ‘optional’ wh-in-situ: Evidence from Greek
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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Restrictions on wh-in situ in Kavalan and Amis [PDF]
Lingua, 2016 This paper investigates the grammatical properties of wh-in situ constructions in Kavalan and Amis, two Austronesian languages in Taiwan. In Kavalan, wh-phrases cannot stay in situ in the absolutive subject position, except for mayni ‘which’. However, all Amis wh-phrases, regardless of their case marking or grammatical function, can stay in situ.
Lin, Dong-yi, Dong-yi Lin
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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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Acquiring Syntactic Variability: The Production of Wh-Questions in Children and Adults Speaking Akan
Frontiers in Communication, 2021 This paper investigates the predictions of the Derivational Complexity Hypothesis by studying the acquisition of wh-questions in 4- and 5-year-old Akan-speaking children in an experimental approach using an elicited production and an elicited imitation ...
Paul Okyere Omane, Barbara Höhle
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