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Disjunction In Free Choice And Polarity In Malagasy, Ileana Paul
Disjunction In Free Choice And Polarity In Malagasy, Ileana Paul
French Studies Publications
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Or, Wh- And Not: Free Choice And Polarity In Malagasy, Ileana Paul
Or, Wh- And Not: Free Choice And Polarity In Malagasy, Ileana Paul
French Studies Publications
This paper explores the distribution of Free Choice Items (FCI) and Negative Polarity Items (NPI) in Malagasy. Both FCIs and NPIs in Malagasy are syntactically complex: they are expressed by disjunctions of wh-words. It is shown that this morphosyntactic structure directly reflects their semantics. In other words, FCIs and NPIs are semantically as well as syntactically disjunctive. Moreover, the Malagasy data support analyses of disjunction as a polarity sensitive element.
An Examination Of Tag-Questions And Ellipsis In English And Spanish, Tiffany Judy
An Examination Of Tag-Questions And Ellipsis In English And Spanish, Tiffany Judy
Presidential Scholars Theses (1990 – 2006)
In this paper, I will examine how tag-questions function in English and test if they function in the same way in Spanish. Then, I will compare the differences between the two languages and propose a structure and method for forming tag-questions in each language. Also, I will examine how ellipsis functions in each language and how it supports the analysis of the tag-questions. Finally, I will show that a few of the apparent differences between the two languages are incorrect and I will give my proposed solution.