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Composing Questions (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs),Used
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An investigation of the syntax and semantics of whquestions through the lens of intervention effects, offering a new proposal on overt and covert whmovement.In this book, Hadas Kotek investigates the syntax and semantics of whquestions, offering a new solution to a central question in the study of interrogatives: given that overt whmovement is crosslinguistically common, is syntactic movement a prerequisite for the interpretation of whphrases? Some linguists argue that all whphrases undergo movement to interrogative C, even if covertly; others propose mechanisms of insitu interpretation that do not require any movement. Kotek moves beyond these positions to argue that whinsitu does move covertly, but not necessarily to C. Instead, she contends, whinsitu undergoes a short movement step akin to covert scrambling. This makes the LF behavior of English parallel to the overt behavior of German.Kotek presents a series of selfpaced reading experiments, alongside judgment data from German, to substantiate the idea of covert scrambling. She introduces new diagnostics for the underlying structure of questions, using as a principal tool the distribution of intervention effects. This system allows her to offer the first unified account for a range of phenomena of interrogative syntaxsemantics as piedpiping, superiority effects, the crosslinguistically varied syntax of questions, and intervention effects.Kotek develops a theory of interrogative syntaxsemantics; studies the phenomena of intervention effects in whquestions, proposing that the nature of intervention is crucially tied to the availability of whmovement in a question; and shows that covert whmovement should be modeled as a short scrambling operation rather than an unbounded, successivecyclic, and potentially longdistance movement operation.
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