Unique focus: languages without multiple wh-questions

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This monograph focuses on an interesting typological property shared by four languages: the ungrammaticality of multiple wh-questions in Irish, Berber, Italian and Somali. It contains a broad discussion of data related to the grammar of wh-questions, a comparative analysis of wh-constructions in the four languages, and a theoretical account for the observed phenomenon. The analysis is based on the minimalist syntax theory as developed by Chomsky since 1995. It takes up the standard assumption t…

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Full title :Unique focus : languages without multiple wh-questions / Marina Stoyanova.

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Publication Date:©2008.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):John Benjamins Pub. Co
Place of Publication:Amsterdam
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2008.

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Description:1 online resource (vii, 184 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789027291523, 9027291527, 1282152181, 9781282152182, 9786612152184, 6612152184
oclc:ocn648354269
LC Classification:P299.I57
Dewey Decimal:415

Unique Focus; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 2. PREVIOUS ANALYSES OF THE UNGRAMMATICALITY OF MULTIPLE WH-QUESTIONS; CHAPTER 3. THE OVERVIEW WHAT IS POSSIBLE IN WHICH LANGUAGE?; CHAPTER 4. ANALYSIS; CHAPTER 5. CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.

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Focus (Linguistics) Focus (Linguistique) Grammar, Comparative and general -- Int… Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syn… Interrogatif LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar … LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguist… Syntaxe