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Interrogative Phrases and the Syntax-Semantics Interface

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Authors:
  1. Ileana Comorovski

    1. Department of Linguistics, The University of Texas at Austin, USA

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Part of the book series: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy (SLAP, volume 59)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Ileana Comorovski
    Pages 1-5

  3. The Interpretation of Interrogative Phrases

    • Ileana Comorovski
    Pages 6-54

  4. Echo Questions and Grammatical Constraints

    • Ileana Comorovski
    Pages 55-81

  5. Superiority

    • Ileana Comorovski
    Pages 82-158

  6. Weak Islands

    • Ileana Comorovski
    Pages 159-178

  7. Conclusions

    • Ileana Comorovski
    Pages 179-180

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 181-195
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About this book

Interrogative Phrases and the Syntax-Semantics Interface starts by analyzing the interpretation of interrogative phrases in single and multiple constituent questions, including their interpretation under adverbs of quantification. The results are then put to work in a novel approach to some of the constraints on dependencies between fronted interrogative phrases and the associated gaps: superiority, weak crossover, as well as the so-called `weak islands' (the WH-island, the negative island and the Factive Island). It is argued that the possibility of fronting an interrogative phrase out of these configurations is determined by a semantic/pragmatic condition on questions, which requires them to be answerable. The analysis is worked out principally on Romanian, a language which allows multiple wh-fronting. The results are then extended to English.
Audience: Researchers and students in syntax, semantics and their interface, as well as linguists studying the relation between the acceptability of sentences and the larger discourse context.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Linguistics, The University of Texas at Austin, USA

    Ileana Comorovski

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Interrogative Phrases and the Syntax-Semantics Interface

  • Authors: Ileana Comorovski

  • Series Title: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8688-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1996

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-3804-8Published: 29 February 1996

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4641-3Published: 09 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-8688-7Published: 17 April 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0924-4662

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-034X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 196

  • Topics: Syntax, Semantics, Theoretical Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence

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