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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston
De Gruyter Mouton,
[2021]
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| Series: | Studies in generative grammar ;
142. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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