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Wh-Movement in Najrani Arabic [PDF]
International Journal of Language and Literature, 2018 Faraj Ahmed Al-hamami +1 more
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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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Exclusivity! Wh-fronting is not optional wh-movement in Colloquial French
, 2020 This article revisits the long-standing issue of the alternation between wh-in-situ and wh-ex-situ questions in French in the light of diglossia and cross-linguistic data.
Richard Faure, Katerina Palasis
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French adverbial clauses: rescue by ellipsis and the truncation vs. intervention debate [PDF]
, 2015 This paper investigates the restrictions on movement to the left periphery found in non-root environments such as French central adverbial clauses and argues that an analysis of main clause phenomena based on intervention/Relativized Minimality is to be ...
Authier, Jean-Marc, Haegeman, Liliane
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On Wh-Elements in Central Kurdish: A Minimalist Approach
Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences, 2020 The paper sheds light on the status of wh-elements in Central Kurdish (CK) with respect to the framework of the Minimalist Program (MP). From across the globe, there exist various types of languages whose wh-elements behave according to wh-parameter ...
Salih Ibrahim Ahmed
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A Comparative Study of WH-Movement in Urdu and English: A Minimalist Perspective
International Journal of English Linguistics, 2018 The present study aims at presenting a comparative study of Urdu and English in terms of Wh-movement in the light of the minimalist program (MP) as the theoretical framework of the study.
Binish Maqsood +3 more
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