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The Structural Design of Language

By Thomas S. Stroik, Michael T. Putnam

In this book, Stroik and Putnam take on Turing's challenge. They argue that the narrow syntax – the lexicon, the Numeration, and the computational system – must reside, for reasons of conceptual necessity, within the performance systems.

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Query Subject:	Verbal Interrogatives
Author:	Lameen Souag
Submitter Email:	click here to access email

Linguistic LingField(s):	Language Documentation Morphology Syntax Typology

Query:	Obviously, interrogatives can occur as nouns (what), adjectives (which), adverbs (how), and even perhaps numerals (ikutu/nan- in Japanese). Does anyone out there know of a language with verbal interrogatives (perhaps in a sentence like 'what are you doing?')? If there are none, does anyone know of a reason why there shouldn't be? Thanks in advance, Lameen Souag lameens@hotmail.com
LL Issue:	11.119
Date posted:	21-Jan-2000
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