From interrogatives to relatives: A comprehensive account of wh-constructions
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781009179362.028" target="_blank" >10.1017/9781009179362.028</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
From interrogatives to relatives: A comprehensive account of wh-constructions
Original language description
The chapter investigates the mutual relation among a number of types of wh-constructions. It proposes that wh-constructions (and wh-words) are organized in what I call a wh-hierarchy - beginning with simplest wh-interrogatives, going via (un)conditionals and correlatives, free relatives, light-headed relatives, and finishing with the most complex headed relatives. This hierarchy is claimed to follow from an incremental structural growth of wh-words, mirroring the growth of the respective wh-clauses (foc-top-rel-mod). The hierarchy receives empirical support from many grammatical and linguistic domains, particularly morphology (wh-word lexicalization patterns), syntax (wh-in-situ vs. ex-situ, structural height of wh-movement landing site), typology (cross-linguistic availability of wh-words in the individual constructions), diachrony, and L1-acquisition. The paper builds on data from a range of genealogically and geographically distant languages, including Indo-European, Uralic, Caucasian, Mesoamerican, or Papuan.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GC21-31488J" target="_blank" >GC21-31488J: Modelling the question-statement opposition in Slavic languages</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
The Cambridge Handbook of Comparative Syntax
ISBN
978-1-00-917938-6
Number of pages of the result
42
Pages from-to
824-865
Number of pages of the book
1103
Publisher name
Cambridge University Press
Place of publication
Cambridge
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