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Syntax, semantics and acquisition of multiple interrogatives : who wants what?.

Multiple interrogatives, questions with multiple wh-phrases (e.g. Who bought what?), have long presented analytical challenges for linguistic theory. This monograph presents a new theoretical and experimental study of this construction. The theoretical findings concern the interaction between superi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grebenyova, Lydia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : John Benjamins, 2012.
Colección:Linguistik aktuell ; v. 195.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Multiple interrogatives, questions with multiple wh-phrases (e.g. Who bought what?), have long presented analytical challenges for linguistic theory. This monograph presents a new theoretical and experimental study of this construction. The theoretical findings concern the interaction between superiority effects, subject-auxiliary inversion, and the distribution of pair-list and single-pair readings cross-linguistically. The author examines multiple interrogatives under sluicing (i.e. clausal ellipsis), presenting new arguments for the deletion analysis of sluicing. The author also reports the.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9027273367
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