Romance Interrogative Syntax: Formal and typological dimensions of variation: 266 (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today) - Hardcover

Bonan, Caterina

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 902720845X ISBN 13: 9789027208453

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2021

Synopsis

This monograph offers an innovative understanding of the mechanisms involved in Romance ‘optional’ wh-in situ. New supporting evidence in favour of Cable’s (2010) Grammar of Q is presented, as well as novel implementations of his original theory. In particular, it is claimed that wh-in situ idioms are characterised not only by language-specific choices between Q-projection and Q-adjunction, and between overt and covert movement of Q, but also in terms of the locus where they check the features relevant to wh-questions: while some languages check both [q] and [focus] in C, others make use of the clause-internal vP-periphery to check [focus]. Thanks to the vast amount of data presented and discussed, along with the predictions and theoretical contributions made, this monograph will be of interest to a wide range of specialists in human language, from typologists to Romance specialists and formal syntacticians, but also to the many experts in languages with overt Q-particles who wonder why Romance specialists have long been so resistant to the implementation of silent Q-particles in their theoretical models.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 902720845X
• ISBN 13: 9789027208453
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 266