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Why is 'Why' unique? : its syntactic and semantic properties / edited by Gabriela Soare.
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Language
English
Published/Created
Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2021]
©2021
Description
vi, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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P284 .W49 2021
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Subject(s)
Grammar, Comparative and general
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Adverbials
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Editor
Soare, Gabriela
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Series
Studies in generative grammar ; 142.
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Studies in generative grammar, 0167-4331 ; volume 142
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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Current Copyright Fee: GBP22.50 0.
Contents
Introduction / Gabriela Soare
Why in a Gbe language
Reason questions as a complementizer domain phenomenon : Evidence from Ewe / Leston Chandler Buell
Towards a cartography of high and low reason adverbials
On 'why' in situ in Northern Italian dialects : Evidence from Trevisan / Caterina Bonan and Ur Shlonsky
Why questions break the residual V2 restriction (in Basque and beyond) / Aritz Irurtzun
Is German warum so special after all? / Nicholas Catasso
Why in Dutch? On why-stripping and high and low adverbials / Norbert Corver
Wh-in-Situ languages : Whys, hows, and whats
On applicative Why-questions in Chinese / Wei-Tien Dylan Tsai
What-as-Why sentences in Cantonese / Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng
Some syntactic aspects of how come
How come questions and diary English / Yoshio Endo
A special class of why rhetorical questions : Semantics and pragmatics
Why rhetorical questions? / Lavi Wolf and Edit Doron
Why and the syntax-prosody interface
On some special properties of why in syntax and prosody / Giuliano Bocci, Silvio Cruschina and Luigi Rizzi
Index of subjects.
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ISBN
9783110675115 ((hardcover))
3110675110 ((hardcover))
LCCN
2021938138
OCLC
1269611738
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