Multiple Wh-fronting
By: edited by Cedric Boeckx, Kleanthes K. Grohmann
Series: Linguistik aktuell = -- Linguistics today -- v. 64; Linguistik aktuell -- Bd. 64.
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9789027296467
Subjects: Extraction (Linguistics); LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES; Linguistics; Syntax; Woordvolgorde; Grammar & Punctuation; Vraagwoorden; Extraction (grammatica)
Description: Typological differences in the formation of multiple Wh-questions are well-known. One option is fronting all Wh-phrases to the sentence periphery. The contributions to this volume all explore this option from a number of perspectives. Topics covered include finer investigations of the "classic" multiple Wh-fronting languages (such as the South Slavic languages Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian), extensions to less well studied languages (Basque, Malagasy, Persian, Yiddish), explorations for languages that don't obviously fall into this category (German, Hungarian), peripheral effects (optionality o.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Multiple Wh-Fronting; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; List of contributors; Introduction; Symmetries and asymmetries in multiple checking; On wh-islands and obligatory wh-movement contexts in South Slavic; On the nature of multiple fronting in Yiddish; On the morphosyntax of wh-movement; German is a multiple wh-fronting language!; Deriving Anti-Superiority effects; Conjoined questions in Hungarian; Persian wh-riddles; Non-wh-fronting in Basque; Malagasy as an optional multiple wh-fronting language.