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Why is 'Why' unique? : its syntactic and semantic properties / edited by Gabriela Soare.
LIBRA P284 .W49 2021
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in generative grammar ; 142.
- Studies in generative grammar, 0167-4331 ; volume 142
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Adverbials.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2021]
- Contents:
- Introduction / Gabriela Soare
- Why in a Gbe language
- Reason questions as a complementizer domain phenomenon : Evidence from Ewe / Leston Chandler Buell
- Towards a cartography of high and low reason adverbials
- On 'why' in situ in Northern Italian dialects : Evidence from Trevisan / Caterina Bonan and Ur Shlonsky
- Why questions break the residual V2 restriction (in Basque and beyond) / Aritz Irurtzun
- Is German warum so special after all? / Nicholas Catasso
- Why in Dutch? On why-stripping and high and low adverbials / Norbert Corver
- Wh-in-Situ languages : Whys, hows, and whats
- On applicative Why-questions in Chinese / Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai
- What-as-Why sentences in Cantonese / Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng
- Some syntactic aspects of how come
- How come questions and diary English / Yoshio Endo
- A special class of why rhetorical questions : Semantics and pragmatics
- Why rhetorical questions? / Lavi Wolf and Edit Doron
- Why and the syntax-prosody interface
- On some special properties of why in syntax and prosody / Giuliano Bocci, Silvio Cruschina and Luigi Rizzi
- Index of subjects.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Current Copyright Fee: GBP22.50 0.
- ISBN:
- 9783110675115
- 3110675110
- OCLC:
- 1269611738
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