Why is ‘Why’ Unique?: Its Syntactic and Semantic Properties
Gabriela Soare, "Why is ‘Why’ Unique?: Its Syntactic and Semantic Properties "
English | ISBN: 3110675110 | 2021 | 324 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 3110675110 | 2021 | 324 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
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
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