Why is 'why' unique? : its syntactic and semantic properties / Gabriela Soare.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Soare, Gabriela, author.

Series:

Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]

Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] ; v.142

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Adverbials.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 pages)

Place of Publication:

Boston, Massachusetts : De Gruyter, [2021]

Summary:

The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.

Contents:

Intro

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.

Notes:

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ISBN:

3-11-067516-1

OCLC:

1266228269