dc.contributor.author |
Soare Gabriela |
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dc.contributor.author |
Bocci Giuliano |
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dc.contributor.author |
Bonan Caterina |
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dc.contributor.author |
Buell Leston Chandler |
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dc.contributor.author |
Catasso Nicholas |
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dc.contributor.author |
Cheng Lisa Lai-Shen |
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dc.contributor.author |
Corver Norbert |
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dc.contributor.author |
Cruschina Silvio |
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dc.contributor.author |
Doron Edit |
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dc.contributor.author |
Endo Yoshio |
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dc.contributor.author |
Irurtzun Aritz |
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dc.contributor.author |
Rizzi Luigi |
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dc.contributor.author |
Shlonsky Ur |
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dc.contributor.author |
Tsai Wei-Tien Dylan |
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dc.contributor.author |
Wolf Lavi |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2024-01-26T21:40:20Z |
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dc.date.available |
2024-01-26T21:40:20Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2021 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Why is 'Why' Unique?: Its Syntactic and Semantic Properties
Studies in generative grammar ;, 142. - 1 online resource (VI, 318 p.). - URL: https://libweb.kpfu.ru/ebsco/pdf/3050045.pdf |
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dc.identifier.isbn |
3110675161 |
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dc.identifier.isbn |
9783110675160 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
https://dspace.kpfu.ru/xmlui/handle/net/178653 |
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dc.description |
In English. |
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dc.description.abstract |
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 why-construals with a touch of whining force. The objective is to explain the unusual syntactic position of these wh-expressions as well as their association with peculiar pragmatics. The questions are addressed for Cantonese: are what-initial sentences genuine questions? To what extent are Cantonese what-initial sentences similar to how-initial sentences in Mandarin? Beside these what-as-why questions, a special class of rhetorical questions, the doubly-marked interrogatives in Hebrew, come under scrutiny. Why is 'why' unique also concerns the interface with prosody and several experimental studies investigate precisely this aspect. |
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dc.description.tableofcontents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1: Why in a Gbe language -- Reason questions as a complementizer domain phenomenon: Evidence from Ewe -- Part 2: Towards a cartography of high and low reason adverbials -- On 'why' in situ in Northern Italian dialects: Evidence from Trevisan -- Why questions break the residual V2 restriction (in Basque and beyond) -- Is German warum so special after all? -- Why in Dutch? On why-stripping and high and low adverbials -- Part 3: Wh-in-Situ languages: Whys, hows, and whats -- On applicative Why-questions in Chinese -- What-as-Why sentences in Cantonese -- Part 4: Some syntactic aspects of how come -- How come questions and diary English -- Part 5: A special class of why rhetorical questions: Semantics and pragmatics -- Why rhetorical questions? -- Part 6: Why and the syntax-prosody interface -- On some special properties of why in syntax and prosody -- Index of subjects |
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dc.language |
English |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
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dc.relation.ispartofseries |
Studies in Generative Grammar. volume 142 |
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dc.relation.ispartofseries |
Studies in generative grammar ;. 142. |
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dc.subject |
High and Low Reasons Adjuncts |
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dc.subject |
Merge Position |
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dc.subject |
Why-questions |
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dc.subject |
'What' as Why-questions |
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dc.subject.other |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Adverbials. |
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dc.subject.other |
Adjunkt. |
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dc.subject.other |
Satzglied. |
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dc.subject.other |
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax. |
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dc.subject.other |
High and Low Reasons Adjuncts. |
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dc.subject.other |
Merge Position. |
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dc.subject.other |
Why-questions. |
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dc.subject.other |
'What' as Why-questions. |
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dc.subject.other |
Electronic books. |
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dc.title |
Why is 'Why' Unique?: Its Syntactic and Semantic Properties
Studies in generative grammar ;, 142./ edited by Gabriela Soare. |
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dc.type |
Book |
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dc.description.pages |
1 online resource (VI, 318 p.). |
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dc.collection |
Электронно-библиотечные системы |
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dc.source.id |
EN05CEBSCO05C1873 |
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