Composing questions

Composing questions / Hadas Kotek.

An investigation of the syntax and semantics of wh-questions through the lens of intervention effects, offering a new proposal on overt and covert wh -movement. In this book, Hadas Kotek investigates the syntax and semantics of wh-questions, offering a new solution to a central question in the study...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kotek, Hadas (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2019.
Series:Linguistic inquiry monographs.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Interrogative.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Word order.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Interrogative
Grammar, Comparative and general > Word order
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Contents; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Notation; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Questions and Their Interpretation; 1.2 Intervention Effects and Covert Movement; 1.3 Covert Wh-Scrambling; I.A Theory Of Wh-Questions; 2. Background: Wh-Questions; 2.1 Two Types of Semantics for Questions; 2.2 Two Approaches to Wh-in-Situ; 2.3 Superiority Effects; 2.4 Presuppositions and the Readings of Multiple Wh-Questions; 2.5 Appendix: Wh-in-Situ and Antecedent-Contained Deletion; 3. The Syntax and Semantics of Wh-Questions; 3.1 The Desiderata; 3.2 The Proposal; 3.3 Simplex Wh-Questions
  • 3.4 Superiority-Obeying Multiple Wh-Questions3.5 Superiority-Violating Multiple Wh-Questions; 3.6 Quiz-Master Questions and Nested Which-Phrases; 3.7 Appendix 1: ALTSHIFT and Declarative Sentences; 3.8 Appendix 2: Wiltschko's Observation; 4. Crosslinguistic Variation in Interrogative Syntax; 4.1 Wh-Fronting Languages without Covert Movement; 4.2 Multiple Wh-Fronting Languages; 4.3 Wh-in-Situ Languages; 4.4 Combined Strategies for Question Formation; 4.5 Pied-Piping; II. Wh-Intervention Effects; 5. Intervention Effects: The State of the Art; 5.1 Some Basic Data
  • 5.2 Intervention: An Informal Description5.3 Beck's (2006) Theory of Intervention Effects; 5.4 On the Surviving Single-Pair Reading of "Intervened" Questions; 6. Intervention Correlates with Movement Possibilities For Wh-in-Situ; 6.1 Intervention in Superiority-Obeying Questions; 6.2 Missing Intervention Effects in Superiority-Violating Questions; 6.3 Intervention Is an LF Phenomenon; III. Covert Wh-Scrambling; 7. Covert Wh-Movement as Covert Scrambling; 7.1 Intervention Effects in Multiple Wh-Questions with Islands; 7.2 Covert Movement and the Nature of Syntactic Derivations

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