Sökning: "wh-questions"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade ordet wh-questions.

  1. 1. Mastering the question : the acquisition of interrogative clauses by Finnish-speaking children

    Författare :Raija Kangassalo; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Finnish; child language development; acquisition; interrogative clause; wh-questions; yes no- questions; disjunctive questions; wh-question word; interrogative particle; discourse function;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to chart the development of interrogative syntax among Finnish-speaking children between the ages of 1 to 4 years living in Sweden. The material consists of language samples taken from eleven Sweden-Finnish children with Finnish as their first language. LÄS MER

  3. 2. The Evaluability Hypothesis : The Syntax and Semantics of Polarity Item Licensing in Swedish

    Författare :Johan Brandtler; Svenska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; downward entailment; long-distance; wh-questions; edge-feature; Spec-CP; negation; NPIs; PPIs; veridicality; term logic;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation is concerned with the empirical and theoretical aspects of polarity item licensing in Swedish. I argue that polarity items are semantically sensitive to evaluability, a concept that refers to the possibility of accepting or rejecting a clause as true in a communicative exchange. Clauses are either evaluable or non-evaluable. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Som-satser med och utan som

    Författare :Ulla Stroh-Wollin; Elisabet Engdahl; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Scandinavian languages - general; relative clauses; embedded wh-questions; clefts; complementizers; complemen-tizer omission; subject–non-subject asymmetries; split CP; Swedish; Scandinavian; English; Nordiska språk - allmänt; Scandinavian languages; Nordiska språk; Scandinavian Languages; Nordiska språk;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with different types of subordinate clauses in Scandinavian and English, e.g. relative clauses and subordinate wh-questions, that all share the characteristic of having a visible or invisible constituent in a pre-complementizer position (spec-CP). LÄS MER

  5. 4. Teckenspråk i taktil form : Turtagning och frågor i dövblindas samtal på teckenspråk

    Författare :Johanna Mesch; Brita Bergman; Arnfinn Vonen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Deaf-blind; tactile sign language; conversation analysis; turn-taking; question; Sign language; Teckenspråk; Sign Language; teckenspråk;

    Sammanfattning : The present study focuses on turn-taking and questions in conversations between deaf-blind persons using tactile sign language, i.e. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Studies in Swedish sign language

    Författare :Brita Bergman; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Teckenspråk;

    Sammanfattning : The present thesis consists of six studies in Swedish Sign Language, the primary language of the Swedish deaf community. Unlike spoken language, which is vocal-auditive with respect to manner of production and perception, signed language is gestural-visual. LÄS MER