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| Title | Studies in generative grammar ;. — Why is 'Why' Unique?: Its Syntactic and Semantic Properties. — 142. |
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| Other creators | Soare Gabriela ; Bocci Giuliano ; Bonan Caterina ; Buell Leston Chandler ; Catasso Nicholas ; Cheng Lisa Lai-Shen ; Corver Norbert ; Cruschina Silvio ; Doron Edit ; Endo Yoshio ; Irurtzun Aritz ; Rizzi Luigi ; Shlonsky Ur ; Tsai Wei-Tien Dylan ; Wolf Lavi |
| Collection | Электронные книги зарубежных издательств ; Общая коллекция |
| Subjects | Grammar, Comparative and general — Adverbials. ; Adjunkt. ; Satzglied. ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax. ; High and Low Reasons Adjuncts. ; Merge Position. ; Why-questions. ; 'What' as Why-questions. ; EBSCO eBooks |
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| Language | English |
| Rights | Доступ по паролю из сети Интернет (чтение, печать, копирование) |
| Record key | on1266228269 |
| Record create date | 8/30/2021 |
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Why is 'Why' Unique? Its Syntactic and Semantic Properties considers the behaviour of this peculiar wh-element across many different languages, including Ewe, Trevisan, Italian, Basque, German, Dutch, Cantonese, Mandarin, English and Hebrew. In ten original chapters, the authors explore various aspects of why-questions, such as the way why interacts with V2 constructions in Basque, with a subject clitic in Trevisan or how its morpho-syntactic make-up determines its merge position in Ewe, to mention but a few. Furthermore, a clear-cut distinction is established between high and low reason adverbials which are subsequently examined in why-stripping environments in Dutch. Beyond why proper, the book explores a special class of wh-expressions in some in-situ languages which give rise to unexpected why-construals with a touch of whining force. The objective is to explain the unusual syntactic position of these wh-expressions as well as their association with peculiar pragmatics. The questions are addressed for Cantonese: are what-initial sentences genuine questions? To what extent are Cantonese what-initial sentences similar to how-initial sentences in Mandarin? Beside these what-as-why questions, a special class of rhetorical questions, the doubly-marked interrogatives in Hebrew, come under scrutiny. Why is 'why' unique also concerns the interface with prosody and several experimental studies investigate precisely this aspect.
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- Contents
- Introduction
- Part 1: Why in a Gbe language
- Reason questions as a complementizer domain phenomenon: Evidence from Ewe
- Part 2: Towards a cartography of high and low reason adverbials
- On ‘why’ in situ in Northern Italian dialects: Evidence from Trevisan
- Why questions break the residual V2 restriction (in Basque and beyond)
- Is German warum so special after all?
- Why in Dutch? On why-stripping and high and low adverbials
- Part 3: Wh-in-Situ languages: Whys, hows, and whats
- On applicative Why-questions in Chinese
- What-as-Why sentences in Cantonese
- Part 4: Some syntactic aspects of how come
- How come questions and diary English
- Part 5: A special class of why rhetorical questions: Semantics and pragmatics
- Why rhetorical questions?
- Part 6: Why and the syntax-prosody interface
- On some special properties of why in syntax and prosody
- Index of subjects
