The structure of content questions in Cheyenne
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10879745 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Avelino Corral Esteban (0000-0002-3017-4509, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25-60 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | WORD (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-7956 • E-ISSN: 2373-5112 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00437956.2019.1567039 |
| OpenAlex | W2922291107 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 22 |
This article has as its main goal to investigate interrogative sentences in Cheyenne and \ntherefore adds to the diversity of such analyses found in other Algonquian languages. This \npaper attempts to provide evidence that content questions in this language differ in structure \ndepending on the status of the questioned element as an argument or adjunct and that \ncontent questions involving an interrogative pronoun are bi-clausal, as they exhibit a cleftlike \nstructure such that the fronted ‘wh’-word functions as the stative predicate of a copular \nclause that is generated sentence-initially encoding the focus of the construction. By \ncontrast, content questions requiring an interrogative adverb are mono-clausal and exhibit \n‘wh’-movement in the traditional sense, that is through ‘wh’-fronting. Thus, this paper intends \nto contribute to the long-standing discussion on whether Algonquian ‘wh’-questions \nhave a mono-clausal structure, involving traditional ‘wh’-movement or a bi-clausal \nstructure, exhibiting ‘wh’-clefting
Cheyenne · Interrogative · Interrogative word · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Predicate (mathematical logic · Pronoun · Semantic property · Sentence · Syntactic structure · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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