That is, the verb has as part of its lexical entry the possibility that it can take an embedded orindirectquestion.
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If children do not recognize that a medial wh-word is a subcategorizedindirectquestion, then they will treat it as a real question.
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However other aspects of wh-movement are not completely controlled at 4 or 5 years, such as the status of theindirectquestion, and semantic distinctions among adjuncts themselves.
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Of course, it is a very complicated question, indeed it is a kind ofindirectquestion.
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When the question is expressed with a subordinate clause, however, it is anindirectquestion.
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However, all scales demonstrate cultural specificity and rely upon measuring loneliness via indirect questions relating to direct social engagement.
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Customers sought advice from pharmacy staff, asking both direct and indirect questions about diabetes management.
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Nonetheless, all demonstrate cultural specificity and rely upon indirect questions about social engagement.
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The report covers the widest questions of policy, the expenditure of nearly £200,000,000, and indirect questions of administration.
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I can understand the proposition that there should be no indirect questions.
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Despite this systematic word order difference across direct and indirect questions, wh-fronting within the clause is occurring in both cases.
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While wh-fronting occurs in both direct and indirect questions, there is a key word order difference that distinguishes between the two.
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Inversion also does not normally occur in indirect questions, where the question is no longer in the main clause, due to the penthouse principle.
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Grammatical structures, such as the lack of inversion in indirect questions, have the flavor of contact with an immigrant language.
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The relative pronouns have fronted in the subordinate clauses of the b-examples, just like they are fronted in the indirect questions in the previous sections.
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