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Tue Apr 20 2004

Sum: Polar Interrogatives without Auxiliaries

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    Message 1: Sum: Polar interrogatives without auxiliaries

     Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 17:00:38 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Bruno Estigarribia <aanandastanford.edu>
    Subject: Sum: Polar interrogatives without auxiliaries


    Hello,

    A concise version of my somewhat longer question to the list (Linguist 15.705) Qs: Polar Interrogatives, posted on the 26th of February: I am currently working on acquisition of yes/no questions in English and I need to look at bibliography on questions in adult (or child) English, in particular acceptable polar interrogatives without auxiliaries (or without inversion).

    Thanks to everyone who replied.

    Brady Zack Clark pointed me to Justin Fitzpatrick's handout http://web.mit.edu/jfitzpat/www/papers/GLOW-handout.pdf

    Arnold Zwicky suggested:

    - Akmajian, Adrian. Linguistics, an introduction to language and communication / Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1979

    - Thrasher, Randy. 1973. A conspiracy on the far left. UMPIL 1.2.169-79)

    - Miller, Jim & Regina Weinert. 1998. Spontaneous spoken language: Syntax and discourse. Oxford: Clarendon P.

    - Quirk et al., Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, with some discussion of the phenomena in sections 12.49 and 12.50

    - Huddleston and Pullum's Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, section 17.7.8.

    John Lawler mentioned Randy Thrasher's thesis (1974, Shouldn't Ignore These Strings: A Study of Conversational Deletion) and a posting to Linguist List (http://linguistlist.org/issues/10/10-985.html) with pointers to other references (including the above cited).

    John Rickford suggested that a good place to look at related phenomena would be the extensive literature on creoles, and Creole Englishes in particular.

    Thanks again to all!

    Bruno Estigarribia Graduate Student Stanford University - Dept. of Linguistics Office 040B - 1 650 725 2323 Margaret Jacks Hall - Bldg. 460 Stanford, CA 94305 USA aanandastanford.edu

    Subject-Language: English; Code: ENG