Soare, Gabriela
(ed.)
Editorial: Walter de Gruyter
Colección: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] ; 142
Número de páginas: 324 págs.
Fecha de edición: 08-05-2023
EAN: 9783111258706
ISBN: 978-3-11-125870-6
Precio (sin IVA): 19,95 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 20,75 €
This book considers the behaviour of this peculiar wh-element across many different languages, including Ewe, Trevisan, Italian, Basque, German, Dutch, Cantonese, Mandarin, English and Hebrew. In ten original chapters, the authors explore various aspects of why-questions, such as the way why interacts with V2 constructions in Basque, with a subject clitic in Trevisan or how its morpho-syntactic make-up determines its merge position in Ewe, to mention but a few. Furthermore, a clear-cut distinction is established between high and low reason adverbials which are subsequently examined in why-stripping environments in Dutch.