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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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Questions in context: the case of French wh-in-situ
, 2021 This dissertation investigates the properties of a particular type of question, namely wh-in-situ questions in French. It examines their properties from two perspectives related to the context in which a question is uttered. These are (a) the information
Glasbergen , A.
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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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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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French wh-in-situ Questions and Syntactic Optionality: Evidence from Three Data Types
Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2006 The aim of this paper is to corroborate the assumption of syntactic optionality for French wh-questions. In terms of a broader basis of evidence three different data types are utilized: Firstly, a qualitative interview approach suggests that wh-in-situ ...
Adli Aria
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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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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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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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Scope assignment: From wh- to QR
Glossa, 2017 This paper develops a theory of scope assignment to wh-phrases as resulting of a process of selective spell-out of copies created from Internal Merge. We show that so-called LF-movement is not a viable option in the current theory of grammar.
George Tsoulas, Norman Yeo
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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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