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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
John Benjamins,
2012.
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| Colección: | Linguistik aktuell ;
v. 195. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Syntax, Semantics and Acquisition of Multiple Interrogatives; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents ; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; Superiority
- Syntactic and interpretive; 1. Introduction; 2. Matrix-embedded asymmetry in Superiority effects; 3. T-to-C movement and locality of wh-movement; 3.1 Equidistance via head-movement; 3.2 Non-identical Agree principle; 3.3 The main-embedded clause asymmetry; 4. Interpretive Superiority; 5. Implications and consequences; 5.1 Cross-linguistic predictions; 5.2 Superiority in non-subject questions.
- 5.3 Subject extraction and T-to-C movement6. Summary; Semantics of multiple interrogatives; 1. The phenomena; 2. Covert wh-movement and semantics of questions; 2.1 Interpreting wh-in-situ; 2.2 Choice functions; 2.3 Syntactic evidence for/against covert wh-movement; 3. Semantics of PL and SP readings; 3.1 Previous accounts; 3.2 PL readings as sets of sets of propositions; 3.3 Syntactic and semantic contribution of the Q-morpheme; 3.4 Compositional semantics for PL and SP readings; 4. Capturing cross-linguistic variation with respect to the SP reading; 4.1 Bošković (2003).
- 4.2 Parameterized selectional restrictions of the Q-morpheme5. Interpretive Superiority; 6. Complex Wh-phrases; 7. Locality effects; 8. Summary; Multiple interrogatives and ellipsis; 1. Introduction; 2. The Phenomenon of sluicing; 3. Licensing TP-deletion; 3.1 Multiple Wh-fronting and contrastive focus; 3.2 A Note on Multiple Foci; 3.3 Focus-licensed sluicing; 3.4 Overt material in Comp; 3.5 Unifying the theory of licensing TP-deletion; 4. Multiple sluicing and semantics of multiple interrogatives; 5. Superiority under sluicing; 6. Summary; Multiple left branch extraction; 1. Introduction.
- 2. The prohibition against multiple left-branch extraction3. LBE as head-movement; 3.1 D-linking and LBE; 3.2 Toward an alternative analysis; 4. Evidence from sluicing; 5. LBE out of Islands; 5.1 Interaction between LBE, islands and sluicing; 5.2 The analysis: Locality and violation encoding; 6. Summary; Acquisition of multiple interrogatives; 1. Introduction; 2. Multiple interrogatives and the nature of the input; 2.1 What is there to acquire?; 2.2 Previous studies; 2.3 Evidence in the Input; 3. Experimental schema; 4. Results; 4.1 Experiment 1: English vs. Russian.
- 4.2 Experiment 2: Child wh-in-situ in Russian4.3 Experiment 3: Malayalam; 5. The Discussion; 5.1 Acquisition of syntax of multiple interrogatives ; 5.2 Acquisition of the PL/SP readings in multiple questions; 5.3 More remarks on Malayalam; 6. Summary; Acquiring contrastive focus and multiple interrogatives; 1. Introduction; 2. Contrastive focus in child language; 2.1 Contrastive focus; 2.2 Previous studies on acquisition of contrastive focus; 2.3 Syntax of contrastive focus: what is there to acquire?; 2.4 Implications for multiple interrogatives; 3. Method; 3.1 Experimental schema.