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On wh-movement in Spanish Echo Questions
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2017 This paper examines Spanish echo questions, an understudied phenomenon even in extensively described languages such as English. In particular, it focuses on a very particular type of echo questions, such as those made in response to a previous yes/no ...
Ekaterina Chernova
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Island-sensitivity of two different interpretations of why in Chinese
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 It has been assumed that the wh-element weishenme “why” in Chinese has two distinct interpretations: a reason reading, which typically yields yinwei “because”-answers, and a purpose reading, which typically triggers weile “in order to”-answers.
Nayoun Kim, Ziying Li, Jiayi Lu
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The Pragmatics Of Wh-In Situ Questions In Greek
Studies in Greek Linguistics, 2016 Presentation at 37th Annual Meeting of the Department of linguistics, School of Philology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Chiou, Michalis, Vlachos, Christos
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Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2006 This paper examines the spontaneous (and elicited) production of questions in 3 typically developing French children (1;8-2;10) and 11 French children with SLI (3;10-9;1).
Cornelia Hamann
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Wh-question formation in Lokạạ [PDF]
, 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 ...
Amaechi, Mary
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 This study is an investigation of both comprehension and production of Wh- questions in Malay-speaking children with a developmental language disorder (DLD).
Norsofiah Abu Bakar +3 more
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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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On wh-clitics, wh-doubling and apparent wh-in-situ in French and some North Eastern Italian dialects [PDF]
Recherches linguistiques de Vincennes, 2005 L’objectif principal de cet article est de contribuer à la compréhension des questions à redoublement des mots-wh communes dans de nombreux dialectes de l’Italie du Nord, d’une part, et, d’autre part, de la syntaxe des questions en que du français que nous analysons comme un cas de redoublement caché.
POLETTO, CECILIA, JEAN YVES POLLOCK
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Wh-questions in Singapore English tell us what about questions with declarative syntax?
Glossa, 2017 Bobaljik & Wurmband (2015) have recently developed a hypothesis that no language truly mixes wh-movement and wh-in-situ structures in its syntax, with seemingly optional wh-in-situ in a wh-movement language being analyzed as a question with ...
Jian Gang Ngui, Yosuke Sato
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Correlations between island (in)sensitivity and base positions of (non-)standard wh-in-situ [PDF]
, 2021 It has been well-accepted in the literature that the island (in)sensitivity of wh-in-situ falls under the so-called Noun versus Adverb Generalization (NAG), which states that an in-situ wh-phrase is island-free iff it is (or contains) a wh-nominal (Tsai ...
Park, Seulkee +3 more
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