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Author Grebenyova, Lydia.

Title Syntax, semantics and acquisition of multiple interrogatives : who wants what?

Publication Info. Amsterdam : John Benjamins, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Linguistik aktuell/linguistics today (LA) ; v. 195
Linguistik aktuell ; v. 195.
Summary Multiple interrogatives, questions with multiple wh-phrases (e.g. Who bought what?), have long presented analytical challenges for linguistic theory. This monograph presents a new theoretical and experimental study of this construction. The theoretical findings concern the interaction between superiority effects, subject-auxiliary inversion, and the distribution of pair-list and single-pair readings cross-linguistically. The author examines multiple interrogatives under sluicing (i.e. clausal ellipsis), presenting new arguments for the deletion analysis of sluicing. The author also reports the.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Interrogative.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Interrogative.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Word order.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Word order.
Minimalist theory (Linguistics)
Minimalist theory (Linguistics)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Grebenyova, Lydia. Syntax, semantics and acquisition of multiple interrogatives. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2012 9789027255785 (DLC) 2012023461 (OCoLC)795687209
ISBN 9027273367 (electronic book)
9789027273369 (electronic book)
9789027255785 (alkaline paper)
9027255784 (alkaline paper)