Wh-asymmetries

Ambar, Manuela

doi:10.1075/la.57.11amb

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“…'obviously') followed by the conjunction que 'that'; the sentences in which these structures appear are exclamative. González i Planas (2010: 66, 75) suggests an adaptation of his own analysis for this specific kind of structures, but he does not give a representation of it; however, considering his explanation, (30) can be proposed: 23 30 An Evaluative projection has also been used by Ambar (2003) for the analysis of some exclamative sentences in Portuguese. And, crucially, it is also used in Munaro & Obenauer (1999) for the analysis of some interrogative sentences in Pagotto (a subvariety of Bellunese, an Italian dialect spoken in the north-east area of the country) that convey surprise.…”

Section: Embeddability and Illocutionary Force: Cómo And Exclamative mentioning

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The causal value of 'cómo': factivity, mirativity and illocutionary forces

López

2019

Borealis

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The interrogative element cómo ‘how’ of Spanish has a double meaning: that of manner and that causal. With the former, it behaves like a typical interrogative element, but, with the latter, its behavior manifests the specificities of por qué ‘why’. Two analyses are proposed, always in cartographic terms: one for sentences with cómo with a causal value and another one for sentences in which cómo with this value appears in front of es que ‘is that’ (cómo es que). Indeed, the conditions for embedding for these two types are different (much more restricted for the first one than for the second one). It is proposed that sentences with cómo without es que have an exclamative illocutionary force with an interrogative component, while the force of sentences with cómo es que would be a variant of the interrogative one (interro-exclamative force). In both cases, their factual and mirative nature is syntactically relevant. The general analysis proposal is finally applied to a poorly studied element, que cosa que (Ripacurtian Catalan and Aragonese).

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Section: Embeddability and Illocutionary Force: Cómo And Exclamative mentioning

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The causal value of 'cómo': factivity, mirativity and illocutionary forces

López

2019

Borealis

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“…En el portugués europeo, sin embargo, el uso de ello asume una interpretación mucho más precisa: el compromiso por parte del interlocutor con la verdad de la proposición, así como una creencia en ella (cf. SEvaluación de Cinque 1999;Ambar 2003;Speas & Tenny 2003), es decir que posee un valor epistémico, perspectiva compartida por Carrilho (2005). 14 En el caso del español dominicano, disponemos de ejemplos de ello en los que desempeña un papel claramente pragmático, como el (41) en que se utiliza ello para reforzar la interpretación contrastiva, así como usos en que la interpretación pragmática resulta menos obvia, como el 42 Sin embargo, teniendo presente que el uso de ello resulta productivo solo en un subconjunto de construcciones impersonales en el tiempo presente en contextos matriz (principalmente ello hay), y que exhibe una distribución oracional restringida, se puede asumir que ello sí goza de algún valor discursivo incluso en el español dominicano, de modo que la interpretación enfática de ello pueda entenderse en todos los casos como el refuerzo del compromiso con la verdad del enunciado por parte del interlocutor mediante la fortalecimiento de la fuerza asertiva de la oración.…”

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El cambio lingüístico y la interfaz sintaxis-pragmática: evidencias de las lenguas ibero-románicas

Corr

2016

CLECM

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En este artículo se analiza la función y distribución del llamado "sujeto expletivo visible" ello/ele/ell en ciertas variedades ibero-románicas no estándares. Se presentan nuevos datos empíricos con el fin de demostrar la caracterización heterogénea del fenómeno, cuya variación actual, según se argumenta, se ve explicada por los distintos grados de cambio sufridos por el elemento expletivo en cada variedad ibero-románica. La contribución pragmática del expletivo ibérico actual semeja el valor semántico de las pruebas empíricas más antiguas y más frecuentes del elemento en los corpus históricos consultados, observación que sirve de punto de partida para reconstruir la trayectoria diacrónica del elemento desde su propuesto origen en contextos impersonales y epistémicos hasta la actualidad, en que el presunto expletivo ibérico demuestra características tanto expletivas como pragmáticas incluso dentro de la misma variedad. Original recibido: 2015/05/28Dictamen enviado al autor: 2015/08/07Aceptado: 2015/09/10

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“…In English multiples, Wh-in-situ is merely allowed in those structures where one wh-phrase has been moved (Ambar, 2001). In fact it is believed that in English only one wh-phrase undergoes fronting.…”

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Wh-Constraints In Interlanguage Grammar Of Persian EFL Learners and its Implication for Teaching English as a Foreign Language

Esfahani

2015

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

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In second language (L2) studies, one direction of research is to investigate whether adult L2 learners still have access to Universal Grammar (UG) .In the related vein, this study is an indirect assessment of availability of Wh-constraints in interlanguage grammar of Persian EFL learners through an on-line sentence-matching task. To do so, 60 university students, both male and female, majoring in EFL at Khorasgan university in Iran were chosen through an Oxford Placement Test (OPT) and divided into three proficiency groups(i.e. 20 Low Intermediate , 20 High Intermediate, and 20 Advanced groups). Moreover, 10 native English speakers were chosen as the control group in this study. Both English native speakers and Persian EFL learners performed an on-line sentence-matching task .The on-line test contained 40 pairs of English sentences, 20 matching grammatical pairs which observed the UG Wh-constraint and 20 matching ungrammatical pairs which violated this Principle. In sentencematching task students responded to two sentences on a computer screen indicating whether the two sentences were identical or not. The reaction time of EFL learners to both grammatical and ungrammatical pairs was measured and compared to that of English native speakers. The results revealed that native speakers of English can do the task faster than non-natives. Thus, Whconstraint is not accessible to second language learners to the same extent that it is to first language learners. This study furthers our understanding of the Persian EFL learners' performance in the area of L2 language acquisition. Moreover, the more proficient groups were faster than the less ones in sentence-matching task. As the proficiency increased, the results got much closer to the results of native speakers . Therefore, proficiency can be considered as a strong factor for UG activation.

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Wh-asymmetries

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The causal value of 'cómo': factivity, mirativity and illocutionary forces

The causal value of 'cómo': factivity, mirativity and illocutionary forces

El cambio lingüístico y la interfaz sintaxis-pragmática: evidencias de las lenguas ibero-románicas

Wh-Constraints In Interlanguage Grammar Of Persian EFL Learners and its Implication for Teaching English as a Foreign Language

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