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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"wh-in-situ"”.
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The Syntax and Semantics of Korean Wh-Quantification: Wh-NPIs and Wh-In-Situ
<p>This dissertation investigates the syntactic and semantic aspects of long-distance dependency involved in Korean wh-Negative Polarity Items (NPIs). Korean wh-NPIs consist of a wh-item and a focus particle <em>-to</em> meaning `also' or `even'. In all reported cases, the wh-item and <em>-to</em> …
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Negative Sensitive Items: Conditions, Constraints, and Consequences
This dissertation offers an analysis of intervention effects and multiple NSI constructions as an instance of a violation of the IC. I first examine intervention effects which have been analyzed as the interruption of a wh-dependency in which an NSI prevents a wh-in-situ from being interpreted by …
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Discourse-Conditioned Wh-Placement in Natural Language
This dissertation presents a typological 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). …
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L1 and L2 Processing of Filler-Gap Dependencies in Mandarin Chinese Speakers: Evidence from Self-Paced Reading Times and Event-Related Potentials
Language processing is a complex task requiring our brain to rapidly integrate various linguistic information from strings of unfolding words and quickly build comprehension. While previous studies have shown that native speakers (L1) employ both incremental and predictive processing in real time …
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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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Decomposing questions
The primary proposal of this thesis that in questions, a "Q morpheme must undergo syntactic movement from a clause-internal position to a clause-peripheral position. Throughout this thesis, we develop a syntactic analysis and a semantic formalism for questions that accounts for the facts observed …