Locality in WH Quantification

Questions and Relative Clauses in Hindi

von Veneeta Dayal

252 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Locality in WH Quantification
argues that Logical Form, the level that mediates between syntax and semantics, is derived from S-structure by local movement. The primary data for the claim of locality at LF is drawn from Hindi but English data is used in discussing the semantics of questions and relative clauses. The book takes a cross-linguistic perspective showing how the Hindi and English facts can be brought to bear on the theory of universal grammar.

There are several phenomena generally thought to involve long-distance dependencies at LF, such as scope marking, long-distance list answers and correlatives. In this book they are handled by explicating novel types of local relationships that interrogative and relative clauses can enter. A more articulated semantics is shown leading to a simpler syntax.

Among other issues addressed is the switch from uniqueness/maximality effects in single
wh
constructions to list readings in multiple
wh
constructions. These effects are captured by adapting the treatment of
wh
expressions as quantifying over functions to the cases of multiple
wh
questions and correlatives. List readings due to functional dependencies are systematically distinguished from those that are based on plurality.

• Reihe: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
• ISBN: 9789048147168
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 09.12.2010
• Genre: Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft/Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
• Verlag: Springer Netherland