Romance interrogative syntax : formal and typological dimensions of variation / Caterina Bonan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bonan, Caterina, author.

Series:

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today ; 266

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Italian language--Interrogative.

Italian language.

Romance languages--Interrogative.

Romance languages.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Interrogative.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 pages)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021]

Summary:

"This monograph offers an innovative understanding of the mechanisms involved in Romance 'optional' wh-in situ. New supporting evidence in favour of Cable's (2010) Grammar of Q is presented, as well as novel implementations of his original theory. In particular, it is claimed that wh-in situ idioms are characterised not only by language-specific choices between QP-projection and Q-adjunction, and between overt and covert movement of Q, but also in terms of the locus where they check the features relevant to wh-questions: while some languages check both [q] and [focus] in C, others make use of the clause-internal vP-periphery to check [focus]. Thanks to the vast amount of data presented and discussed, along with the predictions and theoretical contributions made, this monograph will be of interest to a wide range of specialists in human language, from typologists to Romance specialists and formal syntacticians, but also to the many experts in languages with overt Q-particles who wonder why Romance specialists have long been so resistant to the implementation of silent Q-particles in their theoretical models"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Conventions

Introduction

Chapter 1. Wh-in situ in Northern Italian dialects

Chapter 2. On short movement of clause-internal wh-elements

Chapter 3. Wh-to-Foc is focus-driven

Chapter 4. More on Trevisan wh-in situ

Chapter 5. On the theory of Romance wh-in situ

Conclusions

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.