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Interrogative Phrases and the Syntax-Semantics Interface (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996)
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Interrogative Phrases and the Syntax-Semantics Interface (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996)
Series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 59
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Interrogative Phrases and the Syntax-Semantics Interface starts by
analyzing the interpretation of interrogative phrases in single and
multiple constituent questions, including their interpretation
under adverbs of quantification. The results are then put to work
in a novel approach to some of the constraints on dependencies
between fronted interrogative phrases and the associated gaps:
superiority, weak crossover, as well as the so-called weak islands'
(the WH-island, the negative island and the Factive Island). It is
argued that the possibility of fronting an interrogative phrase out
of these configurations is determined by a semantic/pragmatic
condition on questions, which requires them to be answerable. The
analysis is worked out principally on Romanian, a language which
allows multiple wh-fronting. The results are then extended to
English. Audience: Researchers and students in syntax, semantics
and their interface, as well as linguists studying the relation
between the acceptability of sentences and the larger discourse
context.
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