Why is ‘Why’ Unique? : : Its Syntactic and Semantic Properties / / ed. by Gabriela Soare.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Bocci, Giuliano,; Bonan, Caterina,; Buell, Leston Chandler,; Catasso, Nicholas,; Cheng, Lisa Lai-Shen,; Corver, Norbert,; Cruschina, Silvio,; Doron, Edit,; Endo, Yoshio,; Irurtzun, Aritz,; Rizzi, Luigi,; Shlonsky, Ur,; Soare, Gabriela,; Tsai, Wei-Tien Dylan,; Wolf, Lavi,
• HerausgeberIn: Soare, Gabriela,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] , 142
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VI, 318 p.)

Why is ‘Why’ Unique? Its Syntactic and Semantic Properties considers the behaviour of this peculiar wh-element across many different languages, including Ewe, Trevisan, Italian, Basque, German, Dutch, Cantonese, Mandarin, English and Hebrew. In ten original chapters, the authors explore various aspe...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Part 1: Why in a Gbe language
• Reason questions as a complementizer domain phenomenon: Evidence from Ewe
• Part 2: Towards a cartography of high and low reason adverbials
• On ‘why’ in situ in Northern Italian dialects: Evidence from Trevisan
• Why questions break the residual V2 restriction (in Basque and beyond)
• Is German warum so special after all?
• Why in Dutch? On why-stripping and high and low adverbials
• Part 3: Wh-in-Situ languages: Whys, hows, and whats
• On applicative Why-questions in Chinese
• What-as-Why sentences in Cantonese
• Part 4: Some syntactic aspects of how come
• How come questions and diary English
• Part 5: A special class of why rhetorical questions: Semantics and pragmatics
• Why rhetorical questions?
• Part 6: Why and the syntax-prosody interface
• On some special properties of why in syntax and prosody
• Index of subjects