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Why is 'Why' Unique? - Its Syntactic and Semantic Properties (Hardcover)
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Why is 'Why' Unique? - Its Syntactic and Semantic Properties (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]
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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 various aspects of
why-questions, such as the way why interacts with V2 constructions
in Basque, with a subject clitic in Trevisan or how its
morpho-syntactic make-up determines its merge position in Ewe, to
mention but a few. Furthermore, a clear-cut distinction is
established between high and low reason adverbials which are
subsequently examined in why-stripping environments in Dutch.
Beyond why proper, the book explores a special class of
wh-expressions in some in-situ languages which give rise to
unexpected why-construals with a touch of whining force. The
objective is to explain the unusual syntactic position of these
wh-expressions as well as their association with peculiar
pragmatics. The questions are addressed for Cantonese: are
what-initial sentences genuine questions? To what extent are
Cantonese what-initial sentences similar to how-initial sentences
in Mandarin? Beside these what-as-why questions, a special class of
rhetorical questions, the doubly-marked interrogatives in Hebrew,
come under scrutiny. Why is 'why' unique also concerns the
interface with prosody and several experimental studies investigate
precisely this aspect.
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