Romance Interrogative Syntax
Formal and typological dimensions of variation
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2021
John Benjamins Publishing Co (Verlag)
978-90-272-0845-3 (ISBN)
John Benjamins Publishing Co (Verlag)
978-90-272-0845-3 (ISBN)
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 Q-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.
Erscheinungsdatum | 16.03.2021 |
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Reihe/Serie | Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today ; 266 |
Verlagsort | Amsterdam |
Sprache | englisch |
Gewicht | 630 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft |
ISBN-10 | 90-272-0845-X / 902720845X |
ISBN-13 | 978-90-272-0845-3 / 9789027208453 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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