Romance Interrogative Syntax (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today)

By Caterina Bonan

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 902720845X
• ISBN13: 9789027208453
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 6.5"