Dennis Ott, University of Ottawa

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Incomplete Questions in French: Implications for the Theory of Ellipsis
SSHRC · 2018 · Principal investigator
$57,582

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Incomplete Questions in French: Implications for the Theory of Ellipsis

Principal investigatorSSHRC2018Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Ott, Dennis

Keywords: (1) language; (2) ellipsis; (3) questions; (4) sluicing; (5) French; (6) syntax; (7) discourse; (8) prosody

$57,582

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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