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Wh-Movement Pattern in the Spoken Discourse of Teachers: A Syntactic Analysis
Global Social Sciences Review, 2018 This study investigates the syntactic structures of spoken discourse of teachers in academic discourse. The knowledge of syntactic structure of a language helps in understanding the spoken discourse.
Muhammad Seleem, F. Khan, Aleena Zaman
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Mandarin overt wh-fronting as focus movement
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 2023 This study reexamines the syntactic encoding of information structure embodied by Mandarin overt wh-fronting questions. The sentence patterns that this paper is concerned with are wh-questions containing one or more fronted wh-phrases surfacing in (i) a ...
Fangning Ren
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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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Edge Features and Multiple Wh-Questions
Cadernos de Linguística, 2021 Building on Chomsky’s (2000) proposal that A’-movement is triggered by an EPP-type of feature added to phase heads and Bošković’s (2007) proposal that the relevant feature is to be found on the moving element itself, Nunes (2020) has argued that these ...
Jairo Nunes
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Constraints on multiple dependencies in the left-periphery in European Portuguese
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2020 This paper focuses on intervention effects obtained by embedding a topic constituent (either a displaced topic or a clitic left-dislocated topic) within the domain of wh-movement.
Cecília Castro +4 more
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NZ- in situ euskaraz: gazteen nafar-lapurterazko galdera-estrategia berri bat
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2010 In this article we analyze some new Wh-question constructions that are found in the speech of navarro-labourdin young speakers. After reviewing the structure of the standard Wh-question formation strategy and that of the reinforced strategy which is ...
Maia Duguine, Aritz Irurtzun
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On the status of wh-chains with a spelled-out foot
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2008 The syntax of wh-questions has been largely investigated for several languages, basically focusing on their movement operations. In this paper I resort to wh-questions in Cape Verdean Creole (CVC) to illustrate a further syntactic aspect of these ...
Nélia Alexandre
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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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Quirks of subject (non-)extraction in Igbo
Glossa, 2019 In this paper we present new data on a subject/non-subject extraction asymmetry in Igbo constituent questions. We provide evidence that the superficially morphological phenomenon reflects a deeper syntactic asymmetry: Unlike wh-non-subjects, wh-subjects ...
Doreen Georgi, Mary Amaechi
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Undoing Wh-Movement: On the Need for Multiple Copies
Philosophies, 2021 This contribution presents an outline of the current scholarly discussion of reconstruction with wh-movement, focussing on the Lebeaux Effect (LE) and wider aspects of reconstruction with wh-movement. It presents empirical problems for both the proposals
Jacek Witkoś
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