| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 252 pages) |
| Series |
Linguistik aktuell/linguistics today (LA), 0166-0829 ; volume 266 |
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Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 266.
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| Summary |
"This monograph offers an innovative understanding of the mechanisms involved in Romance 'optional' wh-in situ. New supporting evidence in favour of Cable's (2010) Grammar of Q is presented, as well as novel implementations of his original theory. In particular, it is claimed that wh-in situ idioms are characterised not only by language-specific choices between QP-projection and Q-adjunction, and between overt and covert movement of Q, but also in terms of the locus where they check the features relevant to wh-questions: while some languages check both [q] and [focus] in C, others make use of the clause-internal vP-periphery to check [focus]. Thanks to the vast amount of data presented and discussed, along with the predictions and theoretical contributions made, this monograph will be of interest to a wide range of specialists in human language, from typologists to Romance specialists and formal syntacticians, but also to the many experts in languages with overt Q-particles who wonder why Romance specialists have long been so resistant to the implementation of silent Q-particles in their theoretical models"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 17, 2021) |
| Subject |
Italian language -- Interrogative
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Romance languages -- Interrogative.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Interrogative.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Interrogative
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
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Italian language -- Interrogative
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Romance languages -- Interrogative
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020055025 |
| ISBN |
9789027260123 |
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9027260125 |
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