<i>Wh-</i>Scope Marking
1st Edition
Published on 15. September 2000
VI, 483 pages
978-90-272-8430-3 (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.
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Content
- WH-SCOPE MARKING
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- Introduction
- 1. Background: The Wh-Movement Parameter
- 2. Wh-Scope Marking
- 3. Direct Dependency, Indirect Dependency, and a Mixed Approach
- References
- Wh-Scope Marking: Direct vs. Indirect Dependency
- 1. Introduction
- 2. General Properties of Wh-Scope Marking
- 3. The Indirect Dependency Analysis
- 4. A Version of the Direct Dependency Approach
- 5. Summary and Conclusion
- Scope Marking and Clausal Typing
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Differences between German and Hindi
- 3. Properties and Problems
- 4. Clausal Typing
- 5. Scope Marking is Typing
- 6. Concluding Remarks
- References
- Moving Just the Feature
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Basic D a ta
- 3. Feature Movement as "Partial" Movement
- 4. Seemingly " Partial" Movement Languages
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Partial Wh-Movement: Evidence from Malay
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Some Facts about Malay Wh-Questions
- 3. Arguments Against Bottom-Heavy Chains
- 4. What Drives PM?
- 5. LF Movement to Expletive Position: Movement of Wh - OP or of the CP Associate?
- 6. General Conclusions: The Typology of PM
- References
- On the Wh-Expletive Was in German
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Data
- 3. Syntactic Analysis
- 4. On the Meaning of Wasexpl-Sentences
- 5. Related Data
- 6. Summary
- References
- Scope Marking: Cross-Linguistic Variation In Indirect Dependency
- 1. Overview
- 2. Direct vs. Indirect Dependency
- 3. Variation in Scope Marking
- 4. Some Further Issues
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- Towards a Minimalist Theory of Wh-Expletives,Wh-Copying, and Successive Cyclicity
- 1. Introduction and Overview
- 2. Wh-Expletives: German Was = Hindi Kyaa
- 3. Treating Was/Kyaain Various Models: Chomsky (1986
- 1995
- 1998)
- 4. Successive Cyclicity
- 5. Conclusions
- References
- Towards a Superior Account of Superiority
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Empirical Overview
- 3. The Shortcomings of Some Current Explanatory Attempts
- 4. Parametric Factors
- 5. Conclusion
- References
- The W- ... W-Construction: Appositive or ScopeIndicating?
- 1. Historical background
- 2. Variant I: Was ... W-P-Initial Observations
- 3. Characteristics of Variant I
- 4. Analytic Ideas
- 5. Variant II: W-P ... W-P
- 6. Wh-Phrases In Situ
- 7. LF Movement?
- 8. Interpretational Dependencies
- 9. Exclamatives
- 10. On (9-iii)
- 11. Relative Clause Constructions
- References
- On the Syntax of "Wh-Scope Marker" Constructions:Some Comparative Evidence
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Syntactic Variation in Scope Marking and the Indirect/Direct Dependency Dichotomy
- 3. Hungarian Wh-Scope Marking and the Syntactic CP-as-AssociateProposal of Horvath (1995
- 1997)
- 4. Dayal's Semantic Indirect Dependency Account: Predictions Regarding the Subordinate CP
- 5. Further Evidence Against the Semantic Indirect DependencyApproach to Hungarian: The Status of the "Wh-Scope Marker
- 6. Cross-Linguistic Varia tion and Uniform CP-as-AssociateProposals: Hindi, German and Hungarian
- References
- Towards a Unified Treatment of Wh-Expletives inHindi and German
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Some Essential Properties of Expletive Wh-Constructions in Hindi
- 3. Some Differences between German and Hindi
- 4. An Analysis for the Hindi Kyaa Construction
- 5. Deriving the Essential Properties of the Hindi Kyaa Construction
- 6. Differences between German and Hindi
- 7. Some Remarks on Treating Kyaa/Was as an Object Expletive
- 8. Conclusion
- References
- Absolute and Relative. On Scope in GermanWh-Sentences, W - ... W-Constructions Included
- 1. Overview
- 2. Wh/Q-Interaction in Simple Wh-Sentences
- 3. Wh/Q-Interaction in Complex Wh-Sentences
- 4. Scope Determination
- 5. Scope of Wh-Phrases in Multiple Questions
- 6. Appendix: On the Analysis of W-... W-Constructions
- References
- On the Parenthetical Features of German Was... W-Constructions and How to Account for Them
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Delimiting Integrated Parenthetical Was-Constructions
- 3. Was... W-Constructions I: Parallels to Wh-Extraction Constructions
- 4. Was...W-Constructions II: Parallels to Was-IP Constructions
- 5. Relating Was...W-Constructions to Was-IP Constructions: The Diachronic Perspective
- 6. Relating Was... W-Constructions to Was-IP Constructions: The Synchronic Perspective
- 7. Final remarks
- References
- Partial Wh-Movement and The Typology ofWh-Questions
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Wh-Movement in Wh-in situ and Wh-ex situ Languages
- 3. Analysis
- 4. Summary
- References
- Partial Wh-Movement, Scope Marking, and Transparent Logical Form
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Transparent Logical Form
- 3. The Direct Dependency Approach
- 4. The "Bausteine" Account
- 5. The Indirect Dependency Approach
- 6. Is German like Hindi?
- 7. LF Pied Piping
- 8. Results and To-Dos
- References
- Index
