Composing questions / Hadas Kotek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kotek, Hadas, author.

Series:

Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 80.

Linguistic inquiry monographs ; 80

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Interrogative.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Word order.

Physical Description:

xii, 210 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press [2018]

Contents:

1.1 Questions and Their Interpretation p. 2

1.2 Intervention Effects and Covert Movement p. 4

1.3 Covert Wh-Scrambling p. 7

I A Theory Of Wh-Questions p. 9

2 Background: Wh-Questions p. 11

2.1 Two Types of Semantics for Questions p. 12

2.2 Two Approaches to Wh-in-Situ p. 14

2.3 Superiority Effects p. 17

2.4 Presuppositions and the Readings of Multiple Wh-Questions p. 20

2.5 Appendix: Wh-in-Situ and Antecedent-Contained Deletion p. 25

3 The Syntax and Semantics of Wh-Questions p. 29

3.1 The Desiderata p. 29

3.2 The Proposal p. 30

3.3 Simplex Wh-Questions p. 32

3.4 Superiority-Obeying Multiple Wh-Questions p. 34

3.5 Superiority-Violating Multiple Wh-Questions p. 39

3.6 Quiz-Master Questions and Nested Which-Phrases p. 43

3.7 Appendix 1: AltShift and Declarative Sentences p. 44

3.8 Appendix 2: Wiltschko's Observation p. 46

4 Crosslinguistic Variation in Interrogative Syntax p. 51

4.1 Wh-Fronting Languages without Covert Movement p. 51

4.2 Multiple Wh-Fronting Languages p. 54

4.3 Wh-in-Situ Languages p. 60

4.4 Combined Strategies for Question Formation p. 66

4.5 Pied-Piping p. 69

II Wh-Intervention Effects p. 77

5 Intervention Effects: The State of the Art p. 79

5.1 Some Basic Data p. 79

5.2 Intervention: An Informal Description p. 84

5.3 Beck's (2006) Theory of Intervention Effects p. 86

5.4 On the Surviving Single-Pair Reading of "Intervened" Questions p. 90

6 Intervention Correlates with Movement Possibilities For Wh-in-Situ p. 93

6.1 Intervention in Superiority-Obeying Questions p. 94

6.2 Missing Intervention Effects in Superiority-Violating Questions p. 99

6.3 Intervention Is an LF Phenomenon p. 104

III Covert Wh-Scrambling p. 107

7 Covert Wh-Movement as Covert Scrambling p. 109

7.1 Intervention Effects in Multiple Wh-Questions with Islands p. 110

7.2 Covert Movement and the Nature of Syntactic Derivations p. 116

7.3 Evidence for Covert Wh-Scrambling p. 123

7.4 Some Consequences p. 126

8 Processing Evidence for Covert Scrambling p. 128

8.1 Three Approaches to Covert Movement p. 129

8.2 Experimental Background p. 131

8.3 Experimental Evidence for Covert Scrambling p. 142

8.4 A Hamblin Semantics with Covert Scrambling p. 163

8.5 Appendix: Materials for Experiments 1-3 p. 165.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780262536547

0262536544

9780262039291

026203929X

OCLC:

1042075874