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Peer reviewedFava, Elisabetta – Language Sciences, 1996
Compares indirect "wh"-questions and independent relatives, points to the absence of a clear-cut boundary between these two types of construction, and argues for the indispensability of semantic and pragmatic analysis for syntactic theory. The article emphasizes that it is the answer to a question that supplies the determinate element…
Descriptors: Baltic Languages, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Discourse Analysis
