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Neural Connectivity in Syntactic Movement Processing [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2019 Linguistic theory suggests non-canonical sentences subvert the dominant agent-verb-theme order in English via displacement of sentence constituents to argument (NP-movement) or non-argument positions (wh-movement).
Eduardo Europa +7 more
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An fMRI study on the processing of long-distance wh-movement in a second language [PDF]
Glossa, 2017 Recent behavioural evidence from second language (L2) learners has suggested native-like processing of syntactic structures, such as long-distance wh-dependencies in L2. The underlying processes are still largely debated, while the available neuroimaging
Christos Pliatsikas +2 more
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Wh-Movement, Islands, and Resumption in L1 and L2 Spanish: Is (Un)Grammaticality the Relevant Property? [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 This study reflects on the meaning of the results of a self-paced grammaticality judgment task that tested island configurations (with gaps and resumptive pronouns) in L1 and L2 speakers of Spanish.
Sílvia Perpiñán
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A Minimalist Analysis of Persian Restrictive Relative Clause Derivation [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2023 Within the Minimalist Program (MP), Relative clauses (RCs) are considered complementizer clauses (CPs) containing a C with an edge feature [EF] in the form of [wh] and [EPP] but no tense feature. This study investigates Persian RC derivation based on MP.
Abbas Ali Ahangar, Seyedeh Zohreh Aftabi
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PLoS ONE, 2023 The Mehri Language is an endangered language spoken in eastern Yemen, a sub-group of the Semitic language family, and a Southern Arabic language. The syntax of Mehri wh-questions has not been explored within minimalism; hence, there is a morpho-syntactic
Abdul-Hafeed Fakih +2 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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Studies in African Linguistics, 2005 This paper explores question formation in Kitharaka (E54; Bantu; Kenyan) within the crosslinguistic approach developed in Sabel (2000, 2002, 2003). According to Sabel, variation in the positioning of wh-phrases in languages can be explained if it is ...
Peter Kinyua Muriungi
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An Investigation of the Information Structure of Wh-Questions in Modern Persian Based on Text [PDF]
Matn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 2016 Wh-question words are linguistic devices which are either associated with the information structure of the sentences or are regarded as signs for the kind of information provided by the sentences.
Mohammad DabirMoghaddam +1 more
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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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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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