Essays on the representational and derivational nature of grammar : the diversity of Wh-constructions

Author(s)

• Aoun, Joseph
• Li, Yen-hui Audrey

Bibliographic Information

Essays on the representational and derivational nature of grammar : the diversity of Wh-constructions

Joseph Aoun and Yen-hui Audrey Li

（Linguistic inquiry monographs / Samuel Jay Keyser, general editor, 40）

MIT Press, c2003

• : hard
• : pbk

Note

Bibliography: p. [269]-283

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book can be read on two levels: as a novel empirical study of wh- interrogatives and relative constructions in a variety of languages and as a theoretical investigation of chain formation in grammar.The book is divided into two parts. Part I investigates the distribution and interpretation of multiple wh- interrogative constructions, focusing on the workings of Superiority. Part II investigates the structure and derivation of relative constructions. The main languages discussed are Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, and English. The theoretical materials are in the generative grammar tradition.

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Details

• NCID: BA62084954
• ISBN:
  • 0262012006
  • 0262511320
• LCCN: 2002043163
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: vii, 289 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : P299.I57
  • DC21 : 415
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Grammar, Comparative and general -- Interrogative
  • LCSH : Grammar, Comparative and general -- Relative clauses
  • LCSH : Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
  • LCSH : Generative grammar
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00359736