Unique focus: languages without multiple wh-questions
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1. Verfasser: Stoyanova, Marina (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam John Benjamins Pub. Co. ©2008
Schriftenreihe:Linguistik aktuell Bd. 123
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Unique Focus; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 2. PREVIOUS ANALYSES OF THE UNGRAMMATICALITY OF MULTIPLE WH-QUESTIONS; CHAPTER 3. THE OVERVIEW WHAT IS POSSIBLE IN WHICH LANGUAGE?; CHAPTER 4. ANALYSIS; CHAPTER 5. CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today
This monograph focuses on an interesting typological property shared by four languages: the ungrammaticality of multiple wh-questions in Irish, Berber, Italian and Somali. It contains a broad discussion of data related to the grammar of wh-questions, a comparative analysis of wh-constructions in the four languages, and a theoretical account for the observed phenomenon. The analysis is based on the minimalist syntax theory as developed by Chomsky since 1995. It takes up the standard assumption that wh-phrases are typical representatives of elements bearing new information, in theoretical terms
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (vii, 184 pages)
ISBN:9027255067
9027291527
9789027255068
9789027291523

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