Focus feature percolation: Evidence from Tundra Nenets and Tundra Yukaghir
Two Siberian languages, Tundra Nenets and Tundra Yukaghir, do not obey strong island constraints in questioning: any sub-constituent of a relative or adverbial clause can be questioned. We argue that this has to do with how focusing works in these languages. The focused sub-constituent remains in si...
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Format: | Conference Object |
Language: | English |
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2014
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0024-3257-0 http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0024-3259-C |