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Main description:Typological differences in the formation of multiple Wh-questions are well-known. One option is fronting all Wh-phrases to the sentence periphery. The contributions to this volume all explore this option from a number of perspectives. Topics covered include finer investigations of the 'classic' multiple Wh-fronting languages (such as the South Slavic languages Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian), extensions to less well studied languages (Basque, Malagasy, Persian, Yiddish), explorations for languages that don’t obviously fall into this category (German, Hungarian), peripheral eff...
Main description:
Typological differences in the formation of multiple Wh-questions are well-known. One option is fronting all Wh-phrases to the sentence periphery. The contributions to this volume all explore this option from a number of perspectives. Topics covered include finer investigations of the 'classic' multiple Wh-fronting languages (such as the South Slavic languages Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian), extensions to less well studied languages (Basque, Malagasy, Persian, Yiddish), explorations for languages that don’t obviously fall into this category (German, Hungarian), peripheral effects (optionality of fronting, Superiority vs. Anti-Superiority etc.), interface issues (with semantics, pragmatics, and phonology), and simply theoretical approaches aiming to capture the mechanisms involved in multiple Wh-fronting strategies. The theoretical framework adopted throughout is the Minimalist Program, viewed from different angles. This volume brings together some of the leading experts on the syntax of Wh-questions and offers up-to-date analyses of the topic. It will be indispensable for scholars investigating multiple Wh-questions, and will find an appropriate audience in advanced students and faculty alike.
Table of contents:
- Acknowledgements
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- Symmetries and asymmetries in multiple checking
- On wh-islands and obligatory wh-movement contexts in South Slavic
- On the nature of multiple fronting in Yiddish
- On the morphosyntax of wh-movement
- German is a multiple wh-fronting language!
- Deriving Anti-Superiority effects
- Conjoined questions in Hungarian
- Persian wh-riddles
- Non-wh-fronting in Basque
- Malagasy as an optional multiple wh-fronting language
- Multiple wh-fronting in Serbo-Croatian matrix questions and the matrix sluicing construction
- Index
Typological differences in the formation of multiple Wh-questions are well-known. One option is fronting all Wh-phrases to the sentence periphery. The contributions to this volume all explore this option from a number of perspectives. Topics covered include finer investigations of the 'classic' multiple Wh-fronting languages (such as the South Slavic languages Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian), extensions to less well studied languages (Basque, Malagasy, Persian, Yiddish), explorations for languages that don’t obviously fall into this category (German, Hungarian), peripheral effects (optionality of fronting, Superiority vs. Anti-Superiority etc.), interface issues (with semantics, pragmatics, and phonology), and simply theoretical approaches aiming to capture the mechanisms involved in multiple Wh-fronting strategies. The theoretical framework adopted throughout is the Minimalist Program, viewed from different angles. This volume brings together some of the leading experts on the syntax of Wh-questions and offers up-to-date analyses of the topic. It will be indispensable for scholars investigating multiple Wh-questions, and will find an appropriate audience in advanced students and faculty alike.
Table of contents:
- Acknowledgements
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- Symmetries and asymmetries in multiple checking
- On wh-islands and obligatory wh-movement contexts in South Slavic
- On the nature of multiple fronting in Yiddish
- On the morphosyntax of wh-movement
- German is a multiple wh-fronting language!
- Deriving Anti-Superiority effects
- Conjoined questions in Hungarian
- Persian wh-riddles
- Non-wh-fronting in Basque
- Malagasy as an optional multiple wh-fronting language
- Multiple wh-fronting in Serbo-Croatian matrix questions and the matrix sluicing construction
- Index