Wh-Scope Marking
Published on 15. September 2000
Book
Hardback
483 pages
978-1-55619-994-3 (ISBN)
Description
This volume is the first comprehensive overview of the syntax and semantics of wh-scope marking. Wh-scope marking constructions have recently received a lot of attention; their very existence and their intricate properties have important consequences for syntax, semantics, and the syntax-semantics interface (e.g., with respect to the wh-criterion, the wh-movement parameter, feature checking, the theory of locality, the interpretation of wh-phrases and why-chains, and the nature of LF). The fifteen contributions share the basic assumptions of the Chomskyan approach to syntax and the model-theoretic approach to semantics; they address a variety of languages (among them German, Hindi, Hungarian, English, Frisian, Kikuyu, and Malay). A recurrent theme in all articles is whether wh-scope marking should be analyzed in terms of a direct, indirect, or mixed dependency. The wealth of cross-linguistic empirical evidence and the theory-independent relevance of the conclusions should make this book the ultimate source of information on wh-scope marking for years to come.
Reviews / Votes
The present volume is unique in that it represents the most thorough and systematic crosslinguistic investigation of wh-scope marking constructions available to date. The book has been carefully edited and contains a useful index, and the articles are well cross-referenced. Both the extent of empirical coverage and the depth of analysis provided by this volume are impressive. -- Claudia Felser (University of Essex) in Journal of Germanic Linguistics 13:3, 2001More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam/Philadelphia
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
750 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55619-994-3 (9781556199943)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
1. Introduction (by Lutz, Uli); 2. Wh-Scope Marking: Direct vs. Indirect Dependency (by Beck, Sigrid); 3. Scope Marking and Calusal Typing (by Brandner, Ellen); 4. Moving Just the Feature (by Cheng, Lisa Lai-Shen); 5. Partial Wh-Movement: Evidence from Malay (by Cole, Peter); 6. On the Wh-Expletive Was in German (by d'Avis, Franz-Josef); 7. Scope Marking: Cross-Linguistic Variation In Indirect Dependency (by Dayal, Veneeta); 8. Towards a Minimalist Theory of Wh-Expletives, Wh-Copying, and Successive Cyclicity (by Fanselow, Gisbert); 9. Towards a Superior Account of Superiority (by Haider, Hubert); 10. The W-... W- Construction: Appositive or Scops Indicating? (by Hohle, Tilman N.); 11. On the Syntax of "Wh-Scope Marker" Constructions: Some Comparative Evidence (by Horvath, Julia); 12. Towards a Unified Treatment of Wh-Expletives in Hindi and German (by Mahajan, Anoop K.); 13. Absolute and Relative. On Scope in German Wh-Sentences, W- ... W-Constructions Included (by Pafel, Jurgen); 14. On the Parenthetical Features of German. Was... W-Constructions and How to Account for them (by Reis, Marga); 15. Partial Wh-Movement and the Typology of Wh-Questions (by Sabel, Joachim); 16. Partial Wh-Movement, Scope marking, and Transparent Logical Form (by Stechow, Arnim von); 17. Index