Why is 'Why' Unique? Its Syntactic and Semantic Properties
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 va...
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Berlin ; Boston
De Gruyter Mouton,
[2021]
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| Series: | Studies in generative grammar ;
142. |
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| 490 | 1 | |a Studies in Generative Grammar ; |v volume 142 | |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Introduction -- |t Part 1: Why in a Gbe language -- |t Reason questions as a complementizer domain phenomenon: Evidence from Ewe -- |t Part 2: Towards a cartography of high and low reason adverbials -- |t On 'why' in situ in Northern Italian dialects: Evidence from Trevisan -- |t Why questions break the residual V2 restriction (in Basque and beyond) -- |t Is German warum so special after all? -- |t Why in Dutch? On why-stripping and high and low adverbials -- |t Part 3: Wh-in-Situ languages: Whys, hows, and whats -- |t On applicative Why-questions in Chinese -- |t What-as-Why sentences in Cantonese -- |t Part 4: Some syntactic aspects of how come -- |t How come questions and diary English -- |t Part 5: A special class of why rhetorical questions: Semantics and pragmatics -- |t Why rhetorical questions? -- |t Part 6: Why and the syntax-prosody interface -- |t On some special properties of why in syntax and prosody -- |t Index of subjects |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 546 | |a In English. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 06, 2021). | ||
| 653 | 0 | |a Grammar, Comparative and general |x Adverbials. | |
| 653 | 4 | |a Adjunkt. | |
| 653 | 4 | |a Satzglied. | |
| 653 | 7 | |a LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax. |2 bisacsh | |
| 653 | |a High and Low Reasons Adjuncts. | ||
| 653 | |a Merge Position. | ||
| 653 | |a Why-questions. | ||
| 653 | |a 'What' as Why-questions. | ||
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