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A Panorama of South Asian Relatives: A Case of Structural Convergence, Divergence, Innovation and Syntactic Change
This paper attempts to study variation, structural commonalities and innovations made in the formation of full-fledged (the wh-type of English) and...
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Last but not least: a comparative perspective on right dislocation in Alasha Mongolian
The primary goal of this paper is to understand the information structure of right dislocation (RD). I report a variation in RD in Asian languages...
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The right node raising analysis of coordinated wh-questions in Japanese
In this paper, I argue for the right node raising (RNR) analysis of coordinated wh -questions in Japanese, according to which verbs or their larger...
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Dutch preposition stranding and ellipsis: ‘Merchant’s Wrinkle’ ironed out
This paper provides an explanation for the unexpected ban on preposition stranding by wh -R-pronouns under sluicing in Dutch. After showing that...
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Prioritising: Subordination and Information Structure in Poems
This chapter addressesSubordination the question of why syntactic structure is important in poems and how the TCF of PrioritisingPrioritising...
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On the absence of low focus movement in Brazilian Portuguese
A number of works have assumed the existence of so-called “low focus movement” in Brazilian Portuguese, that is, focus-driven movement to a...
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Moving on 1: A Holistic Review of Chaps. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 Based on Narrative 2
In this chapter we begin work on our second narrative A Woman’s College from the Outside by Virginia Woolf (1926). The chapter explores the narrative...
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Presupposition
In the pilot of the American TV series Newsroom, a sophomore from Northwestern University asks the three guests: Can you say why America is the...
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The External Syntax of Conditional Clauses
The chapter looks at the typology of conditional clauses against the background of the wider typology of adverbial clauses, focusing on their...
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Predicate fronting in Yiddish and conditions on multiple copy Spell-Out
Predicate fronting with doubling (also known as the predicate cleft ) has long been a challenge for theories of syntax that do not predict the...
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P-omission in ellipsis in Spanish: Evidence for syntactic identity
In this paper I discuss apparent violations to the P(reposition)-Stranding Generalization (Merchant
2001 ) in Spanish, a language that does not allow...
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Studies in Chinese Phonetics
The experimental study of Chinese phonetics started in the early twentieth century in the context of a long philological tradition in China. Its...
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Knowing, Again: Non-reducibility of Responsive Predicates
In the previous chapter, I have focused on three classes of responsive predicates/particles from cross-linguistic data—English predicates of...
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‘Doing expertise’: linguistic standardization in early modern Romance expert cultures
For more than thirty years, there has been an increasing interest in “alternative language histories” (Elspaß 2021: 94). Rather than concentrating on...
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The Configuration Theory
In the traditional era, the issue of stylistic devices was tackled by the Dictionary theory. According to this theory, the core meaning of a word is...
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Tasks in Language Acquisition Research: More Than What Meets the Blinking Eye
The paper reviews tasks used for studying children’s language acquisition—judgement methods (grammaticality/acceptability judgements, yes–no/truth...
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The Conceptualization Theory
In the traditional era, the issue of meaning was tackled by the Reference Theory. According to this theory, meaning is regarded as objective in...
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Alluding: Implying and Assuming in Poems
Two of the original TCFs from critical stylisticsCritical stylistics that most obviously border on the pragmaticPragmatic meaning are...
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Aphasia, Sub-Sentential Speeches and Pragmatic Enrichment
This chapter explores various issues about agrammatism, aiming to identify a unifying factor that elucidates the underlying problems of aphasia. Due...
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The Battle of Brunanburh: The Lanchester Hypothesis
The location of the battle of Brunanburh in 937 remains a source of disagreement among investigators. In recent years many places have been...