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Title Details:
The left periphery II
Other Titles: Wh-questions and Ᾱ-dependencies
Authors: Roussou, Anna
Reviewer: Georgiafentis, Michail
Subject: HUMANITIES AND ARTS > LINGUISTICS > STRUCTURE OF LANGUAGE > GRAMMAR > THEORIES AND MODELS OF GRAMMAR > FORMAL GRAMMARS > GENERATIVE TRANSFORMATIONAL GRAMMAR
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > LINGUISTICS > THEORY AND METHOD
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > LINGUISTICS > LINGUISTIC UNITS
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > LINGUISTICS > STRUCTURE OF LANGUAGE
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > LINGUISTICS > FIELDS OF LINGUISTICS > FIELDS RELATED TO THE STRUCTURE OF LANGUAGE > SYNTAX
Keywords:
Agree
Interfaces
Locality
Internal Merge
Topic
Focus
Relative Clauses
Wh-questions
Island
Probe
Goal
Description:
Abstract:
In this final chapter we discuss Ᾱ-dependencies, drawing special attention to wh-constructions. These structures involve a quantifier and a variable. We follow the same mechanism of internal merge, as in the case of A-dependencies. However, the differences between the two dependencies rely on the different features (and heads) that are involved in the two cases. The analysis extends to relativization, topicalization and focusing. This chapter also has a higher degree of difficulty compared to the previous one, although it remains introductory. Its goal is to combine theory and application on new empirical data. It consists of 5 sections. Section one introduces the Q feature of C; section two analyses the formation of wh-questions, while section three extends this mechanism to relative clauses. Section four introduces locality, while section five discusses topic and focus constructions.
Linguistic Editors: Fragkaki, Georgia
Technical Editors: Ioannis, Angelakos
Type: Chapter
Creation Date: 2015
Item Details:
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/gr
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/589
Bibliographic Reference: Roussou, A. (2015). The left periphery II [Chapter]. In Roussou, A. 2015. SYNTAX [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/589
Language: Greek
Is Part of: SYNTAX
Number of pages 31
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions