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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"interrogatives"”.
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A grammar of interrogatives in Tonga.
This study examined interrogatives in Tonga. In particular, the current study undertook to understand the phonological aspects of interrogative markers, morphological aspects, and their syntactic distributions as well as the role that semantics plays in interrogative constructions within the …
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Embedded interrogatives and predicates that embed them
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1991.
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Questioning Particles: A Cross-Linguistic Approach to Quebec French Polar Interrogatives
This thesis examines the syntactic properties of the polar interrogative particle tu in Quebec French. Its goals are to better understand the role of tu in the grammar of Quebec French and to contribute to the study of interrogative particles in general. Three questions are posed which are intended …
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Formal and philological inquiries into the nature of interrogatives, indefinites, disjunction, and focus in Sinhala and other languages
… values---a class arguably including focus, interrogatives, indefinites, and disjunctions---and the connections between these elements. This study focusses on the analysis of such elements in Sinhala, with comparison to Malayalam, Tlingit, and Japanese. The central part of the study concerns …
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The Intonational System of Dominican Spanish: Findings and Analysis
… difference between DS declaratives and absolute interrogatives, the presence of nuclear upstepping to distinguish between declaratives and absolute interrogatives, and an elevated initial tonal level in pronominal interrogatives.
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Some difficulties in responding to negative polar interrogatives and negative declaratives in English and pedagogical implications for Japanese EFL learners
Traditional Japanese learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) are taught to respond to negative questions (e.g. Do you not like English?) with yes for positive answers (e.g. Yes, I do) and no for negative answers (e.g. No, I don't). However, this is subject to variation in native speaker …
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An intelligent question: answering system for natural language
… been developed. It takes Natural Language parsed interrogatives, produces the Functional and Semantic structures according to the LFG representation. It compares the functional behaviour of verbs and their linguistic associations in a given query with a general Object Model in that specific …
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Language Contact in Majorca: An Experimental Sociophonetic Approach
… both the intonation of declaratives and absolute interrogatives. On the other hand, the intonation of Catalan seems to remain mostly unaffected. Regarding segmental phonetics, on the other hand, there seems to be a tendency for some speakers towards develarizing alveolar laterals in Catalan, which …
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Towards an analysis of Turinese Italian intonation and theoretical implications for intonational phonology
… in declaratives and a Hphrase tone in yes/no interrogatives; on the other hand when the LH tones map onto prominent syllables of topics they are always followed by a H- phrase tone. Finally, the unstable mapping of the LH tone onto the FO contour found here is considered against current …
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Why even ask? : on the pragmatics of questions and the semantics of answers
… and syntax-pragmatics interface of interrogatives, focusing on the effect of presupposition-triggering expressions like even and Negative Polarity Items (NPIs). In exploring these cases, I aim is to contribute new empirical evidence and theoretical insight pertinent to the general …
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Grammar in Interaction: Polar Interrogative Sequences in Talk-in-Interaction
… as the conventionally declarative form of polar interrogatives, promote specific types of responses, such as repetitions. In the absence of morphosyntactic marking of polar, interactants orient to epistemic asymmetry and sequential positioning to mark a turn-at-talk as a polar question. One …
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The development of grammatical morphemes in the speech of young second language learners within a conversational context
… producing verb morphemes within the context of interrogatives and negation. The methodological significance of the identification and interpretation of strategies within an interactional framework is discussed. Analysis reveals that in addition to the general processes identified, which account …
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Prepositional Phrase Attachment Ambiguities in Declarative and Interrogative Contexts: Oral Reading Data
… Arg and Mod sentence versions was smaller for interrogatives than for declaratives. Ultimately, however, no statistically significant interaction between Speech Act and PP2 Status was found.</p> <p>Further studies seeking behavioral evidence of the informal intuition motivating this research …
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Questions and questioning in Montenegrin police interviews
… from different linguistic forms of ‘do you know’ interrogatives in order to perform different actions, such as asking for information, asking for confirmation or preparing the ground for another activity. Moreover, the roles of participants in interrogations heavily affect the language and …
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The Hangzhou dialect
… adverbs, the copula, existential sentences, interrogatives, aspect, negation, the passive, the disposal form, complements, and modifiers marked with /tie?/. Where significant, it is noted how the dialect compares with Beijing on the one hand and with the surrounding Wu dialects on the …
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Assertibility and coordination: Analysing `and' and/or `or', some `some', but not so much `but', `not', `so', or `nor', nor `much'
… logic, negation, and speech acts such as interrogatives and arguments with some interesting results. An approach to conditionals (`if' clauses) and related subordinating conjunctions such as `when' and `since' is sketched based on linguistic classi cations and assertibility considerations. …
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Speaking of pragmatics: Addressing discourse in Finnish and Japanese syntax
… higher layer, and argues based on evidence from interrogatives that the speech act layer is further divided into Grounding and Response layers. Finally, I turn to the importance of internal contrasts and scales in syntax: gradience and contrasts built on hierarchies are shown to play a crucial …
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A linguistic analysis of Mbunda.
… particle. Data collected shows presence of interrogatives which are used in formation of content questions. The study has addressed some aspects of the three levels of linguistic analysis. It is, therefore, recommended that future linguistic studies on Mbunda address areas absent in this …
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A linguistic analysis of Mbunda.
… particle. Data collected shows presence of interrogatives which are used in formation of content questions. The study has addressed some aspects of the three levels of linguistic analysis. It is, therefore, recommended that future linguistic studies on Mbunda address areas absent in this …
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A linguistic analysis of Mbunda.
… particle. Data collected shows presence of interrogatives which are used in formation of content questions. The study has addressed some aspects of the three levels of linguistic analysis. It is, therefore, recommended that future linguistic studies on Mbunda address areas absent in this …
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