Wh-scope marking

Wh-scope marking

by Lutz, Uli Müller, Gereon Stechow, Arnim von

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This volume is the first comprehensive overview of the syntax and semantics of wh-scope marking. Wh-scope marking constructions have recently received a lot of attention; their very existence and their intricate properties have important consequences for syntax, semantics, and the syntax-semantics interface (e.g., with respect to the wh-criterion, the wh-movement parameter, feature checking, the theory of locality, the interpretation of wh-phrases and why-chains, and the nature of LF). The fift…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Wh-scope marking / edited by Uli Lutz, Gereon Müller, Arnim von Stechow.

Summary

This volume is the first comprehensive overview of the syntax and semantics of wh-scope marking. Wh-scope marking constructions have recently received a lot of attention; their very existence and their intricate properties have important consequences for syntax, semantics, and the syntax-semantics interface (e.g., with respect to the wh-criterion, the wh-movement parameter, feature checking, the theory of locality, the interpretation of wh-phrases and why-chains, and the nature of LF). The fifteen contributions share the basic assumptions of the Chomskyan approach to syntax and the model-theor.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2000.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):J. Benjamins
  • Place of Publication:Amsterdam
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2000.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (vi, 483 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9789027284303, 902728430X, 1283128152, 9781283128155, 9786613128157, 6613128155
  • oclc:ocn729252839
  • LC Classification:P299.I57
  • Dewey Decimal:415

Table of Contents

WH-SCOPE MARKING; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Introduction; Wh-Scope Marking: Direct vs. Indirect Dependency; Scope Marking and Clausal Typing; Moving Just the Feature; Partial Wh-Movement: Evidence from Malay; On the Wh-Expletive Was in German; Scope Marking: Cross-Linguistic Variation In Indirect Dependency; Towards a Minimalist Theory of Wh-Expletives, Wh-Copying, and Successive Cyclicity; Towards a Superior Account of Superiority; The W- ... W-Construction: Appositive or ScopeIndicating?

On the Syntax of "Wh-Scope Marker" Constructions:Some Comparative EvidenceTowards a Unified Treatment of Wh-Expletives inHindi and German; Absolute and Relative. On Scope in GermanWh-Sentences, W -- ... W-Constructions Included; On the Parenthetical Features of German Was ... W-Constructions and How to Account for Them; Partial Wh-Movement and The Typology of Wh-Questions; Partial Wh-Movement, Scope Marking, and Transparent Logical Form; Index.

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