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On Negative Yes/No Questions
Preposed negation yes/no (yn)-questions like Doesn't Johndrink? necessarily carry the implicature that the speaker thinks Johndrinks, whereas non-preposed negation yn-questions like DoesJohn not…
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Interpreting interrogatives as rhetorical questions
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V-Raising and Grammar Competition in Korean: Evidence from Negation and Quantifier Scope
In a head-final language, V-raising is hard to detect since there is no evidence from the string to support a raising analysis. If the language has a cliticlike negation that associates with the verb…
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A Comparative Study of Compliment Responses: Korean Females in Korean Interactions and in English Interactions.
The first part of this paper reviews previous literature on speech acts, compliments, and compliment responses. Previous research shows that the same speech act is very likely to be realized quite…
The Structure and Interpretation of Imperatives: Mood and Force in Universal Grammar
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This book discusses cross-linguistic Variation in the Compatibility between Imperatives and Negation, and feature content of the Imperative Operator Subjunctives and Infinitivals with Directive Function and the Subjects of Imperatives.
The Syntax Of Whether/Q... Or Questions: Ellipsis Combined With Movement
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It is argued that the syntax of whether/Q...; or questions involves both movement ofWhether/Q and ellipsis of the type that has been argued to exist for either ... or constructions, permitting a unified account of the two types of constructions.
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Evidentiality in language and cognition
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Force, negation and imperatives
This article presents an account of the cross-linguistic variation in the availability of negative imperatives. By imperatives, I refer to sentences with a distinctive imperative morphology on the…
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Processing Strategies and ResumptivePronouns in English
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A subject-object asymmetry in resumption is implied: subject resumption, but not object resumption), improves acceptability of island violations, and thus island-violating structures with subject Resumption should be more acceptable than those with object Resumption.
Extracting Tree Adjoining Grammars from Bracketed Corpora
ExtractingTreeAdjoiningGrammarsfromBracketedCorp…
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