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Remnant movement and smuggling in some romance interrogative clauses
2020This chapter analyzes the syntax of interrogative clauses in French and in some Northern Italian dialects (NIDs), including so-called “wh-in-situ” configurations. It shows that their intricate properties can be derived from standard computations (“wh-movement” and remnant movement of vP/IP to a Top/ground slot) to either the vP Left periphery (“LLP ...
Cecilia Poletto, Jean-Yves Pollock
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Varieties of non-interrogative subordinatewh-clauses
2023AbstractIn the introductory chapter we provide an overview over non-interrogative (and subordinate) uses of wh-clauses introduced by manner, temporal, and locative expressions—English how, when, and where. We focus, in particular, on wh-clauses in which the meaning of the wh-word appears to deviate from its standard meaning.
Łukasz Jędrzejowski, Carla Umbach
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Question-orientation versus answer-orientation in English interrogative clauses
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Interrogative clauses in English and the social economics of questions
Journal of Pragmatics, 2017Abstract Communicative interaction may be conceived of as a give and take of information that partners in conversation assign a value to and track carefully. The social value of information gives rise to a complicated microeconomic system in the sense of Levinson (2012) in which asking for information is associated with social costs that speakers ...
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Interrogative final endings of noun clause function
MorphologyThe purpose of this study is to specifically clarify why the interrogative final endings that form a noun clause equivalents appears only in interrogative final endings rather than in other final endings. Additionally, the non-final function of interrogative final endings was explored, and the necessity of discussing certain interrogative final endings
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The functions of grammaticalized complement-taking-predicate clauses in interrogatives: a typology
Text & TalkAbstract Grammaticalized complement-taking-predicate (CTP) clauses like I think have been much studied in declaratives but not in interrogatives. We propose a typology of the grammatical functions that these CTP-clauses can convey, i.e., polarity bias, polarity reversal ...
Jiqiang Lu, Kristin Davidse
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The Interrogative Left Periphery: How a Clause Becomes a Question
Linguistic InquiryQuestion meaning is built up at three points in the interrogative left periphery. An interrogative is differentiated semantically from a declarative at CP. It becomes a request for information by the speaker, directed toward the addressee, at SAP (Speech Act Phrase).
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Remarks on Turkish interrogative complement clauses and verb subcategorization
This chapter examines the interpretations of interrogative complement clauses in Turkish, with a focus on the embedded wh-words. Verbs such as unut- (forget) and hatırla- (remember) do not constitute an interrogative environment for the embedded wh-words, and the embedded wh-words are non-interrogative.openaire +1 more source