The study analyzes the syntax of if you ask me (e.g., she’s not ready for that kind of responsibility if you ask me) in a sample of 789 constructions from The Corpus of Contemporary American English. Special attention is paid to how the order of the protasis interacts with other domains in language use: speaker, […]

In A’ingae (iso 639-3: con), the augmentative evaluative -ʔu AUG and the augmentative adjectivizer -ʔu AA are segmentally identical and have the same -ʔ allomorph when followed by a vowel. However, they trigger different stress assignment—the evaluative -ʔu AUG stresses the second syllable to its left, while the adjectivizer -ʔu AA preserves underlying stress (if […]