The Welsh Answering System

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Preface Acknowledgements List of figures List of tables 1 Answering systems 1.1 Semantics 1.2 Forms 1.3 An overview of Welsh responsives 2 Welsh echo responsives 2.1 Perfect responsives: tense and aspect 2.2 Full echo and substitute responsives: types of finite verbs 2.3 Agreement features: person deixis 2.4 Agreement features: number 2.5 Forms of bod ‘be’ 2.6 More about negative forms 2.7 Summary 3 Welsh echo and nonecho responsives 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Discourse sources 3.3 Syntactic form 3.4 Logical form 3.5 Summary 4 Discourse functions of Welsh responsives 4.1 Answers 4.2 Agreements and disagreements 4.3 Response questions 4.4 Acknowledgements 4.5 Corrections 4.6 Polarity of responsives 5 A formal analysis of Welsh responsives 5.1 VPless elliptical sentences 5.2 Responsives and VPless elliptical sentences 5.3 A generalized analysis 6 Children’s use of Welsh responsives 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Echo responsives 6.3 Nonecho responsives 6.4 Nonecho or echo responsives 6.5 Forms of verbal responsives: positive and negative 6.6 Summary 7 Language contact: the influence of English 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Language background 7.3 Conclusions 8 Internal causes of variation 8.1 Isomorphism 8.2 Discourse 8.3 Semantics 8.4 Overall summary and conclusions Appendix I. Conventions in the corpus examples Appendix II. Conventions in the interlinear glosses Appendix III. Additional examples of responsives Appendix IV. Examples of formal answering systems Notes References Index