Syntax Semantics And Acquisition Of Multiple Interrogatives Who Wants What Lydia Grebenyova by Lydia Grebenyova 9789027273369, 9027273367 instant download after payment.

Multiple interrogatives, questions with multiple wh-phrases (e.g. Who bought what?), have long presented analytical challenges for linguistic theory. This monograph presents a new theoretical and experimental study of this construction. The theoretical findings concern the interaction between superiority effects, subject-auxiliary inversion, and the distribution of pair-list and single-pair readings cross-linguistically. The author examines multiple interrogatives under sluicing (i.e. clausal ellipsis), presenting new arguments for the deletion analysis of sluicing. The author also reports the
Content: 1. List of abbreviations, pxi-xii; 2. Preface, pxiii-xiv; 3. Introduction, pxv-xviii; 4. Chapter 1. Superiority - Syntactic and interpretive, p1-20; 5. Chapter 2. Semantics of multiple interrogatives, p21-56; 6. Chapter 3. Multiple interrogatives and ellipsis, p57-80; 7. Chapter 4. Multiple left-branch extraction, p81-106; 8. Chapter 5. Acquisition of multiple interrogatives, p107-144; 9. Chapter 6. Acquiring contrastive focus and multiple interrogatives, p145-164; 10. Chapter 7. Concluding remarks, p165-168; 11. References, p169-178; 12. Appendix A: Test items in experiments on multiple interrogatives, p179-180; 13. Appendix B: Script for experimental stories on multiple interrogatives, p181-184; 14. Appendix C: Test items and script for experiments on contrastive focus, p185-188; 15. Index, p189-192
Abstract: Multiple interrogatives, questions with multiple wh-phrases (such as Who bought what?), have long presented analytical challenges for linguistic theory. This title presents a theoretical and experimental study of this construction.