Why is 'Why' unique? : its syntactic and semantic properties / edited by Gabriela Soare.

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English
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  • Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2021]
  • ©2021
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vi, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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    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.
    ISBN
    • 9783110675115 ((hardcover))
    • 3110675110 ((hardcover))
    LCCN
    2021938138
    OCLC
    1269611738
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