On how how is used instead of that

On how how is used instead of that

This article examines a construction in English which has hitherto escaped attention in the linguistic literature, whereby a declarative embedded clause is introduced by how rather than that. We investigate the properties of this construction, revealing that it consists of a definite DP, rather than...

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Veröffentlicht in:Natural language and linguistic theory 2010-02, Vol.28 (1), p.121-134
1. Verfasser: Legate, Julie Anne
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Descriptive studies and applied theories
Dictionaries
English language
Grammatical clauses
Grammatical constructions
Ice cream
Interrogatives
Linguistics
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Noun phrases
Philosophy of Language
Predicates
Prepositions
Presuppositions
Reference (Semantic)
Relative clauses
Social Sciences
Syntactic structures
Syntax
Tariffs
Writing
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Zusammenfassung:This article examines a construction in English which has hitherto escaped attention in the linguistic literature, whereby a declarative embedded clause is introduced by how rather than that. We investigate the properties of this construction, revealing that it consists of a definite DP, rather than a simple embedded CP.
ISSN:0167-806X
1573-0859
DOI:10.1007/s11049-010-9088-y