Multiple Wh-fronting
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Multiple Wh-fronting
(Linguistik aktuell, v. 64)
J. Benjamins, c2003
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Typological differences in the formation of multiple Wh-questions are well-known. One option is fronting all Wh-phrases to the sentence periphery. The contributions to this volume all explore this option from a number of perspectives. Topics covered include finer investigations of the "classic" multiple Wh-fronting languages (such as the South Slavic languages Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian), extensions to less well studied languages (Basque, Malagasy, Persian, Yiddish), explorations for languages that don't obviously fall into this category (German, Hungarian), peripheral effects (optionality of fronting, Superiority vs. Anti-Superiority etc.), interface issues (with semantics, pragmatics, and phonology), and simply theoretical approaches aiming to capture the mechanisms involved in multiple Wh-fronting strategies. The theoretical framework adopted throughout is the Minimalist Program, viewed from different angles. This volume brings together some of the leading experts on the syntax of Wh-questions and offers up-to-date analyses of the topic. It will be indispensable for scholars investigating multiple Wh-questions, and will find an appropriate audience in advanced students and faculty alike.
Table of Contents
- 1. Acknowledgements
- 2. List of contributors
- 3. Introduction (by Boeckx, Cedric)
- 4. Symmetries and asymmetries in multiple checking (by Boeckx, Cedric)
- 5. On wh-islands and obligatory wh-movement contexts in South Slavic (by Boskovic, Zeljko)
- 6. On the nature of multiple fronting in Yiddish (by Diesing, Molly)
- 7. On the morphosyntax of wh-movement (by Dikken, Marcel den)
- 8. German is a multiple wh-fronting language! (by Grohmann, Kleanthes K.)
- 9. Deriving Anti-Superiority effects: Multiple wh-questions in Japanese and Korean (by Jeong, Youngmi)
- 10. Conjoined questions in Hungarian (by Liptak, Aniko)
- 11. Persian wh-riddles (by Lotfi, Ahmad R.)
- 12. Non-wh-fronting in Basque (by Reglero, Lara)
- 13. Malagasy as an optional multiple wh-fronting language (by Sabel, Joachim)
- 14. Multiple wh-fronting in Serbo-Croatian matrix questions and the matrix sluicing construction (by Stjepanovic, Sandra)
- 15. Index
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