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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Wh-movement"”.
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Unifying Optional Wh-movement
… forward a theory that attempts to unify optional wh-movement within the Minimalist framework. Optionality is generally problematic for a theory ofMinimalist syntax: movement, when motivated, must occur. This thesis argues that having a wh-movement language does not strictly entail that wh-phrases …
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The (in)distinction between wh-movement and c-selection
This thesis asks the following question: what can wh-movement teach us about verb phrase structure? I examine two apparent interactions between wh-movement and Voice: Mayan Agent Focus and the Double Object Movement Asymmetry (DOMA) (Holmberg et al., 2019). In certain Mayan languages, subject but …
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Second language processing of wh-movement in English : the effects of first language and learning environment
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, 2010
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The acquisition of complex wh- questions in the L2 English of Canadian French and Bulgarian speakers: Medial wh-constructions, inversion phenomena, and avoidance strategies
… examines the development of long-distance wh- movement questions in the L2 English of (Canadian) French and Bulgarian speakers. The main phenomenon under investigation is medial wh- constructions (wh- scope marking and wh- copying). Such constructions are of particular interest because they …
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What Happens to the Where, When and How in Malay?
In this thesis, I analyze three positions of the wh-word in Malay and attempt to explain what accounts for the differences between them. Specifically, I consider if the movement of the wh-interrogative is really wh-movement or if something else is going on. In regard to the the in-situ wh-words and …
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The Role of Individual Differences in the Acceptability of Island Violations in Native and Non-native Speakers
… acquisition of syntactic island constraints on wh-movement in English by native speakers of Najdi Arabic to test whether it is possible for second language learners (L2) to acquire syntactic constraints that are not present in their first language (L1). According to the Full Transfer/Full Access …
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Composing questions
… syntax and semantics for simplex and multiple wh-questions, concentrating on English and German data. The proposed theory combines Cable's (2007; 2010) Q-based syntax for wh-movement and pied-piping with a new and simple semantics that combines ingredients familiar from the literature in a …
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Agreement as a fallible operation
… end-of-the-derivation structure, and which are eliminated by the application of [phi]-agreement itself (as in Chomsky's 2000, 2001 uninterpretable features approach, for example). Instead, it requires recourse to an operation- one whose invocation is obligatory, but whose successful …
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Discourse-Conditioned Wh-Placement in Natural Language
… investigation of discourse-conditioned wh-placement in natural languages, focusing on wh-ex-situ in wh-in-situ languages (Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Turkish) and wh-in-situ in wh-movement languages (Greek, Italian, French, Spanish). Standing at the interface of syntax …
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Chains and anaphoric dependence : on reconstruction and its implications
… anaphoric effect is termed connectivity. 1) [which of each other's friends][did the men see t]? Chapter 1 is a brief overview of the necessary definitions presumed in the thesis, and an outline of the subsequent chapters. Chapter 2 introduces a large body of data which must be treated on a par …
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Mutation and the syntactic structure of modern colloquial Welsh
… empty category NPs are considered. In chapter 5, which centres on wh-traces, it is shown that the variable appears in a wider variety of construction types in Welsh than had previously been suggested. A pre-head relativization site for extractions from VP and NP is posited. Chapter 6 develops the …
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The Syntax of Relative Clauses and Related Phenomena in Proto-Indo-European
… provides a viable methodology through which we may address this challenge, integrating the specific task of reconstruction into the broader field of historical syntax. The methodology necessarily demands a discussion of Minimalist theories of relative clause structures, which I provide …
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Scrambling as Case-Driven Obligatory Movement
… is a consequence of case-driven obligatory movement, a proposal consistent with the "last resort" condition on movement in [Chomsky 1991] and [Chomsky 1992]. I assume that scrambling is adjunction and defend this view in Ch. 5. In Ch. 2 and Ch. 3 based on binding facts and scope …
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Adverb placement : an optimality theoretic approach
… general (Part I) as well as in constructions in which the adverb's sister constituent is deprived of its phonetic material by movement or ellipsis (gap constructions, Part II) and to provide an Optimality Theoretic approach to the contrasts in the effects of these factors on the distribution of …
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Online Processing of Wh-Dependencies in English by Native Speakers of Spanish
… learners of English are capable of processing wh-dependencies incrementally and observing the grammatical constraints that regulate wh-extraction in English, similar to native speakers. The study included two self-paced reading experiments run in a word-by-word non-cumulative moving window …
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Comprehension of Spanish relative and passive clauses by early bilinguals and second language learners
… for HL learners, this study sought to find out whether age of onset of meaningful exposure (and consequently type of L2/HL input and experience) affected adult L2 learners and heritage speakers’ knowledge of these structures, which are acquired early (by age 3 or 4) but are most frequently used …