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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"wh-questions"”.
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On the typology of wh-questions
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1991.
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Scope theory revisited : lessons from pied-piping in wh-questions
… argues that a closer study of pied-piping in wh-questions reveals the true power of already-existing tools in grammar. Building on the important insight that more complex scope-takers can be recursively built (Dayal, 1994; Charlow, 2017), I advance the idea that grammar makes crucial use of …
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The grammar of Q : Q-particles and the nature of Wh-fronting, as revealed by the Wh-questions of Tlingit
… for a variety of phenomena surrounding wh-operators is not those operators themselves, but rather a distinct element that we label a 'Q(uestion)-particle'. In many languages, the Q-particle is phonologically empty, and so its role in various phenomena has not yet been recognized. Most …
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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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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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Wh-Question Processing in Children with Cochlear Implants
… difficulty accurately answering and producing wh-questions. The syntactic construction of wh-questions include syntactic movement, whereby the wh-question phrase that replaces the subject or object noun is fronted to the beginning of the sentence. This leaves a syntactic gap at the subject or …
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Recovering Ergativity in Heritage Samoan
… et al. 2012). This dissertation investigates whether ergativity persists in the grammar of Samoan heritage speakers in spite of the abrupt shift in language input during early childhood (i.e. from Samoan to English, an accusative language). Samoan, a relatively understudied language, exhibits …
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Intonation and interface conditions
… syntactic phenomena-especially those involving wh-questions-in Japanese. A phonological mechanism of FIP formation is proposed that accounts for the variety of FIPs observed in various syntactic configurations. In the FIPs of Japanese wh-questions, the F0 of wh-phrases is raised, and the F0 of …
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Towards an analysis of Turinese Italian intonation and theoretical implications for intonational phonology
… Standard Italian declarative statements', yes/no questions' and wh-questions' was collected to describe a partial grammar of intonational morphemes in the language and provide an analysis for the utterances. Two major theories of intonational phonology are outlined and tested against the data. It …
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Intervention effects in German : a contiguity approach
This paper explores to what extent Richards' Contiguity Theory can insightfully be applied to so-called Intervention Effects in German, a set of phenomena which were originally described as constraining the syntax in an interesting way and have mostly been studied in Alternative Semantics terms by …
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About sharing
… in a technical sense, to refer to a situation where a syntactic node has more than one mother. I assume that multidominance is allowed by the grammar. I argue that sharing configurations are more diverse than it has been proposed. I identify two kinds of sharing: bulk sharing and non-bulk …
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The effects of using Smartboard and interactive games to improve reading comprehension of secondary students with moderate cognitive disabilities
… by their scores of correct responses to "Wh" questions on their paper. During intervention (Phase B), the teacher used the Smartboard and Boardmaker software to present fiction and nonfiction stories. Each session included the student listening to the story, read by the voice embedded in …
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The Syntax and Semantics of Korean Wh-Quantification: Wh-NPIs and Wh-In-Situ
… 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> appear adjacent to each other. However, the wh-item and …
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Extraction from relative clauses in Swedish
… from relative clauses (ERC) in Swedish, where a phrase outside a relative clause (RC) is related to a gap or a resumptive pronoun inside the RC. The aim of the study is to provide an analysis of Swedish ERC-sentences based on spontaneously produced examples, questionnaire data, and …
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Linguistic Transfer in Andean Spanish: Syntax or Pragmatics?
… in the Andean Spanish of Bolivia and Ecuador. While Standard Spanish has basic order SVO, in Andean Spanish the object frequently appears in preverbal position, resulting in alternative orders (e.g. OVS). Previous studies have attributed this phenomenon to an influence of Quechua, where the …
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All about alles: The syntax of wh-quantifier float in German
This thesis offers an in-depth investigation of “wh-quantifier float” of the quantifying particle ‘alles’ in German. 'Alles' (etymologically, ‘all’) appears in wh-questions like 'Wen alles hat die Mare eingeladen?' (‘Who-all did Mare invite?’). The thesis focuses on the syntactic distribution of …
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Chinese Null and Covert Arguments and their Behaviours in L2 Chinese Grammars
… Hypothesis (IH) (Sorace & Serratrice, 2009), which argues that syntactic properties involving other cognitive domains may not be acquirable. Abundant L2 studies on the IH have focused on null-subject languages with rich inflection. By contrast, less attention has been paid to L2 acquisition of …
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Relationship preservation
… a number of puzzles related to word order, in which the co-occurence of two elements in the same clause imposes a restriction on the distribution of these elements. I suggest that elements involved in Agree relationships [Chomsky (2000, 2001)] are subject to a requirement that they be aligned …
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Heuristisk analys med Diderichsens satsschema. Tillämpningar för svensk text
… the subsequent identification of constituents which do not have an upper bound on their length (subject, object/predicatives and adverbials) can be identified relying to a lesser on extent explicit pattern matching, and more on different heu-ristic rules. For phrase type identification and …
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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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