Abstract This paper is concerned with the Q-particle də in Sinhala wh-questions and polar questions. Previous approaches propose a two-legged semantic dependency: (i) lower leg projects set of alternatives (ii) upper forms choice function dependency. The contribution present two-fold. First, it presents novel empirical data on complex questions islands that pose serious problem for this archite...

It was claimed by variationists that languages experience variation at all levels, which is supposed to be patterned. The present study aimed at exploring how variation occurred in English and Persian wh-questions. More specifically, it investigated whether such a variation was systematic and patterned. To this end, a modified version of the Edinburgh Map Task was used in data collection. The p...

The primary proposal of this thesis that in questions, a “Q” morpheme must undergo syntactic movement from a clause-internal position to a clause-peripheral position. Throughout this thesis, we develop a syntactic analysis and a semantic formalism for questions that accounts for the facts observed in wh-in-situ languages (focusing mainly on Japanese, Sinhala, Shuri Okinawan, and premodern Japan...

This paper tests claims that children with Grammatical(G)-SLI are impaired in hierarchical structural dependencies at the clause level and in whatever underlies such dependencies with respect to movement, chain formation and feature checking; that is, their impairment lies in the syntactic computational system itself (the Computational Grammatical Complexity hypothesis proposed by van der Lely ...

In this paper, we report the analysis of melodic behavior wh-questions from North England. The corpus contains 107 utterances issued by 19 different native informants in real communicative situations, extracted recordings street interviews published on YouTube and carried out cities York, Manchester, Sheffield Liverpool. is conducted through Melodic Analysis Speech (MAS) method (Cantero, 2002) ...