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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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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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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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Q-particles and the nature of Covert movement: Evidence from Buli
Glossa, 2019 There are a number of intriguing issues surrounding wh-questions that have drawn considerable attention in the literature. Among the most commonly observed is the fact that in certain languages, wh-phrases move overtly from their base-generated positions
Abdul-Razak Sulemana
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