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February 2024
Danfeng Wu — Pied-piping by ‘whether’ across languages
Whether and if can both introduce embedded questions, and appear to be interchangeable (e.g. I don’t know whether/if Amira will arrive). But a well-known difference between them is that the phrase or not can immediately follow whether (I don’t know whether or not Amira will arrive), but not if (*I don’t know if or not Amira will arrive) (Kayne 1991). I argue that this contrast can be explained if we assume that whether can pied-pipe (i.e. as whether undergoes wh-movement,…
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Centering Language Data in Technology Choices: The Case of the New Tunica Dictionary The language documentation and revitalization world has many examples of productive community-academic collaborations. These collaborations often take place with the help of technology: emails to schedule our language sessions, google docs to store collective documents, file structures with naming conversations to store audio media, and software to store and analyze language data, to name a few. In short, technology is central to these relationships and the language…
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