Romance interrogative syntax : formal and typological dimensions of variation /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Bonan, Caterina (συγγραφέας)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, c2021.
• Σειρά: Linguistik aktuell/linguistics today (LA), volume 266
• Θέματα: Ιταλική γλώσσα > Σύνταξη.; Γραμματική, Συγκριτική και γενική > Ερωτηματικός τύπος.; Γραμματική, Συγκριτική και γενική > Σύνταξη.
• Φυσική περιγραφή: xiv, 252 σ. : εικ. ; 25 εικ.
• Βιβλιογραφία: Περιλαμβάνει βιβλιογραφικές παραπομπές (σ. 237-250) και ευρετήριο.
• ISBN: 9789027208453; 9789027260123
• ISSN: 0166-0829 ;

"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 QP-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"--