This monograph offers an innovative understanding of the mechanisms involved in Romance 'optional' wh-in situ. New supporting evidence in favour of Cable's (2010) Grammar of Q is presented, as well ...as novel implementations of his original theory. In particular, it is claimed that wh-in situ idioms are characterised not only by language-specific choices between QP-projection and Q-adjunction, and between overt and covert movement of Q, but also in terms of the locus where they check the features relevant to wh-questions: while some languages check both q and focus in C, others make use of the clause-internal vP-periphery to check focus. Thanks to the vast amount of data presented and discussed, along with the predictions and theoretical contributions made, this monograph will be of interest to a wide range of specialists in human language, from typologists to Romance specialists and formal syntacticians, but also to the many experts in languages with overt Q-particles who wonder why Romance specialists have long been so resistant to the implementation of silent Q-particles in their theoretical models.
Este trabajo analiza y describe, a partir de datos procedentes de corpora orales del español de España, la construcción interrogativa hipotética (
), un tipo de construcción interrogativa no descrita ...hasta el momento. Esta construcción sirve al hablante para realizar una pregunta parcial y presentar, al mismo tiempo, una posible respuesta que se infiere del contexto discursivo. Se trata de una pregunta parcial formalmente marcada: es encabezada por un pronombre interrogativo invariable
, independientemente de la función sintáctica del constituyente interrogado; presenta un mínimo contenido presupuesto en la interrogación – típicamente, solo el contenido verbal –; e incluye una hipótesis respecto a la respuesta posible a la pregunta, típicamente inferida del discurso previo o del contexto discursivo inmediato.
While interrogative pronouns, adverbials, and determiners seem to constitute universal word categories (Ultan 1978), interrogative verbs are rather rare worldwide (Hagège 2008). One of the languages ...to attest this rare category is Ngəmba, a Ghomala’ variety of the Eastern Grassfields Bantu group in Cameroon. This article provides a first descriptive outline of the semantic and morphosyntactic properties of the Ngəmba interrogative verb ghě ‘do what?’. Based on comparative evidence from micro-variation across closely related neighbouring Ghomala’ varieties, it fleshes out a historical model that traces the Ngəmba interrogative verb back to a fusion of a prior verb meaning ‘do’ with an interrogative element.
This book puts forth a novel syntactic and semantic analysis of wh-questions based upon in-depth study of the Tlingit language, an endangered and under-documented language of North America. A major ...consequence of this new approach is that the phenomenon classically dubbed pied-piping does not actually exist. The book begins by arguing that wh-fronting in Tlingit does not involve a syntactic relationship between interrogative C and the wh-word. Rather, it involves a probe/Agree relation between C and an overt ‘Q-particle’ (or ‘Q’) c-commanding the wh-word. Fronting of the wh-word in Tlingit is thus a mere by-product of fronting the QP projected by this Q. Given the strong similarity between the wh-constructions of Tlingit and those of more widely studied languages, this ‘Q-based’ analysis is applied to a range of other languages. Regarding so-called pied-piping structures, the Q-based theory provides an analysis in which the very concept of ‘pied-piping’ is eliminated from the theory of grammar. Furthermore, the account provides an especially minimal semantics for pied-piping structures, in which no mechanisms are needed beyond those required for simple wh-questions. Finally, the Q-based theory is able to capture certain constraints on pied-piping, as well as aspects of its variation across languages. Beyond its treatment of pied-piping, the Q-based theory also yields a novel syntax and semantics for multiple wh-questions that ties the presence of Superiority Effects to the absence of Intervention Effects. Furthermore, the account predicts a previously unnoticed Intervention Effect in English pied-piping structures. Finally, the Q-based theory provides a novel account of the ill-formedness of P-stranding and left branch extractions in many of the world’s languages.
This conversation analytic study reports on Hebrew expressions such as ˈex korim le-ze ‘how does one call it’ and ma ha-shem she-la ‘what is her name’. I term them ‘Naming Interrogatives’ (NIs), and ...offer an account of their forms and functions in word search environments. Most commonly, NIs are used to induce solitary word searches, in which the responsibility of solving the trouble is that of the repair initiator. However, they are also used to induce joint word searches, in which that responsibility is distributed among participants; or, to demand other repair, as tokens inducing recipient-directed word searches, laying the responsibility of repair solely on the recipient. Helping type-distinguish between these three functions are orderly patterns of action formation and turn design. Namely, the strategic deployment of morphosyntactic, lexico-semantic and prosodic resources with varying degrees of (semantic, discursive, acoustic) prominence. My analysis suggests that participants use NIs in order to saliently construct and negotiate their epistemic status and stance. It also claims that this practice reveals some of the social significance that demonstrating lexical knowledge has for participants.
•‘Naming Interrogatives’ are clauses consisting of an interrogative word and an item carrying the semantics of naming.•‘Naming Interrogatives’ induce various forms of ‘word searching’, posing different levels of responsibility on recipients.•The design of ‘Naming Interrogatives’ helps participants display the degree of collaboration they want with a word search.•Using ‘Naming Interrogatives’, participants negotiate epistemic status.•‘Naming Interrogatives’ help account for face discrepancies that may result of having trouble with lexical retrieval.
Questions in Discourse Zimmermann, Malte; von Heusinger, Klaus; Onea Gaspar, V. Edgar
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The volume Questions in Discourse - Vol. 2 Pragmatics collects original research on the role of questions in understanding text structure and discourse pragmatics. Most studies adopt the perspective ...of (implicit) Questions under Discussion in presenting novel analyses of various discourse-semantic phenomena.
In this introduction to the special issue on “Attitudinal Interrogatives in Interactive Talk”, we review previous studies on the non-interrogative uses of ‘question-word’ constructions in natural ...conversations, then draw attention to some new studies focusing on how these constructions are deployed as stance markers. Previous studies have often identified disaffiliative uses for these ‘question-word’ constructions; in this special issue, attention is given to affiliative uses as well. Given that question-words are often also used as indefinite pronouns, we include a section on the roles of both indefiniteness and interrogativity in the emergence of attitudinal question-word constructions. We also highlight a number of interesting issues and new insights from each contributing paper. Among these are issues related to correlations between locus (e.g. left vs. right periphery asymmetries), sequence, and prosody. New insights include formulaic attitudinal interrogative forms, the use of question-word infixation, as well as pathways of attitudinal drifts. Finally, we also discuss some of the directions for future research.
•Wh-interrogative constructions often have non-interrogative uses.•These non-interrogative uses often express the speaker's disaffiliative stance.•Recent findings show wh-interrogatives can also have affiliative functions.•Some languages show prosodic differences between affiliative and disaffiliative uses.•These drifts from referential to attitudinal uses are crosslinguistically robust.
Each language has its own characteristics, which can be seen by the interrogative construction themselves. Polar interrogative construction in Japanese will be discussed in this research. The ...research is kind of qualitative reasearch by using descriptive method. The data of the research is the polar interrogative construction consisted in the textbooks minnano nihongo shokyuu I and nameraka nihongo kaiwa. The theory of interrogative construction by Seimund (2011) was used as the theory in this research. The results of the research showed that the finding of polar interrogative construction was formed by the intonation, the addition of interrogative particle, and the interrogative tag. Meanwhile, the polar interrogative construction formed by the change of constituent order, verbal inflection, and disjunction was not found. The finding of polar interrogative construction in the textbook minna no nihongo shokyuu I is dominated by the polar interrogative construction which is formed by the adding of interrogative particle, while in the textbook nameraka nihongo kaiwa is dominated by the polar interrogative construction which is formed by the intonation. Abstrak Setiap bahasa memiliki karakteristik tersendiri. Karakteristik tersebut dapat dilihat dari konstruksi interogatifnya. Pada penelitian ini akan dibahas mengenai konstruksi interogatif polar dalam bahasa Jepang. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif dengan metode deskriptif. Data dalam penelitian ini adalah konstruksi interogatif polar yang terdapat dalam bukuMinna No Nihongo Shokyuu I, Nameraka Nihongo Kaiwa,dan komikOremonogatariChapter1karangan Kazune Kawahara danAruko.Teori yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah teori konstruksi interogatif Siemund (2001). Hasil dari penelitian ini adalah konstruksi interogatif polar yang wujud terbentuk dari intonasi, penambahan partikel interogatif,dan taginterogatif. Sementarakonstruksi interogatif polar yang terbentuk dengan perubahan urutan konstituen, infleksi verbal dan disjungsi tidak ditemukan. Konstruksi interogatif polar yang wujud dalam buku Minna No Nihongo Shokyuu I dankomikOremonogatariChapter 1 didominasi oleh konstruksi interogatif polar yang terbentuk dari penambahan partikel interogatif,sementara pada buku Nameraka Nihongo Kaiwadidominasi oleh konstruksi interogatif polar yang terbentuk dari intonasi.
Questions in Discourse von Heusinger, Klaus; Onea Gaspar, V. Edgar; Zimmermann, Malte
2019, 2019-04-09, Letnik:
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The volume Questions in Discourse - Semantics contains an overview of the semantic analysis and discourse-structuring role of questions, together with in-depth contributions on individual aspects of ...question meanings and the function of implicit questions in discourse.
The purpose of the abstract: The Interrogative sentences are one of the more using sentences in the Turkish language & normal life in the Turkish society. For the reason, the basic purpose of this ...abstract; is the Interrogative study by its meaning and its linguistic structure. Upon y study, I focused on the interrogative sentences in a novel of (Jacob Qadri Kara Osman Oglu) under the title of (All This Song), I have selected this study because the author is one of novel name in the Turkish literature and also has been mentioned interrogative sentences largely for this novel. In Introduction or Preface, we mentioned to the meaning of interrogative sentences & its structure and we have dealt with value sources in the field of Turkish language for the Turkish linguists that they searched in the interrogative sentences generally.
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