A cross-linguistic comparison of content interrogatives

This dissertation explores the diversity of content interrogatives and the intricate semantic distinctions both between and within interrogative categories. The research employs the Massively Parallel Text method with which 413 interrogative contexts are collected from Bible translations in 88 langu...

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Main Author:	Liu, Siyu
Contributors:	Cysouw, Michael (Prof. Dr.) (Thesis advisor)
Format:	Doctoral Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	Philipps-Universität Marburg 2023
Subjects:	Sprachtypologie cluster analysis linguistic typology massively parallel text Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik content interrogatives Sprachvielfalt language diversity Language, Linguistics
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