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Wh-interrogatives in ancient Greek ; Wh-interrogatives in ancient Greek: Disentangling focus- and wh-movement
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In: ISSN: 0039-3193 ; EISSN: 1467-9582 ; Studia Linguistica ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03579191 ; Studia Linguistica, Wiley-Blackwell, In press (2022)
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International audience ; This article explores the problem of information structure in ancient Greek direct constituent questions from the perspective of wh-placement. It begins with the observation that wh-items are intrinsically focused and that typologically, wh-placement is predictable based on the focusing properties in some languages, such as Indonesian (in situ strategy) and Basque or Hungarian (focus position strategy), but not in others, such as English (specific wh-position strategy). Ancient Greek has multiple ways to express narrow focusing, e.g., in situ or in a preverbal devoted position. Puzzlingly, with respect to whPs, the former way is only marginally attested and there is no good evidence for the latter way. Instead, based on syntactic and prosodic tests, we show that ancient Greek offers a third strategy, in which a high position in the structure is available. Nevertheless, when this result is recast in the framework of Phase Theory, the tests of wh-duplication and stranding indicate that whPs must go through all three positions, receiving their argument function in situ, checking their focus feature preverbally and verifying their wh-feature in the high position. The specificity of 'why' questions is addressed along the way.
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[SHS.CLASS]Humanities and Social Sciences/Classical studies; [SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics; [SHS.LITT]Humanities and Social Sciences/Literature; Ancient Greek Language; Grec ancien langue; Ordre des mots; Structure informationnelle; Syntax of questions; Syntaxe de l'interrogation; Word order and information structure
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URL: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03579191/file/Bertrand%20Faure%202022%20Wh-Focus%20in%20Ancient%20Greek.pdf
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On the syntax of West Kalimantan: Asymmetries and A'-movement in Malayic and Land Dayak languages
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Head movement and allomorphy in children's negative questions
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In: Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; Vol 3 (2018): Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; 33:1–9 ; 2473-8689 (2018)
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Echo Questions in Turkish
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In: Open Access Theses & Dissertations (2012)
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Pair-list readings in Korean-Japanese, Chinese-Japanese and English-Japanese interlanguage
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: Sage Publications, 2011. : Sage UK: London, England, 2011
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Pair-list readings in Korean-Japanese, Chinese-Japanese and English-Japanese interlanguage
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In: ISSN: 0267-6583 ; EISSN: 1477-0326 ; Second Language Research ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00570743 ; Second Language Research, SAGE Publications, 2008, 24 (2), pp.189-226. ⟨10.1177/0267658307086301⟩ (2008)
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FUNCTIONAL CONSTRAINTS ON WH-QUESTION FORMATION 1 Sergio de Moura Menuzzi (UFRGS \ CNPq)
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In: http://roa.rutgers.edu/files/1004-1208/1004-OTHERO-0-0.PDF
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