Grammar books, and hundreds of websites out there, are appallingly confused about statements, questions, orders, and exclamations. Most of the problem lies in their failure to distinguish syntax from ...

There are two kinds of interrogative sentences. The first type are affirmation questions wherein the speaker is trying to get the addressee to assert whether or not a proposition underlying the ...

Bilingual Review / La Revista Bilingüe, Vol. 3, No. 2, Bilingualism in the Bicentennial! (MAY-AUGUST 1976), pp. 122-152 (31 pages) Spontaneous language samples were obtained from 19 Spanish/English ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper examines the syntax of clauses in which prepositions undergo Swiping/Sluice-Stranding in elliptical questions like Who with? (e.g.