Focus on «Wh»-Questions

Maja Lubanska (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2005
Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
978-3-631-53503-5 (ISBN)

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This book is a minimalist study of wh -questions in Polish, which aims at providing a homogeneous account for the phenomena under consideration. The discussion is set against the hypothesis that wh -fronting in Polish targets [Spec, CP]. The analysis relies on the idea that wh -movement applies for reasons of feature checking, as assumed by Chomsky (1993, 1995 ch. 3). The book offers an analysis of multiple wh- questions, wh -scope marking constructions and long-distance wh -extraction facts in Polish. The author argues that no overt wh -movement in the traditional sense takes place in Polish. Wh -fronting is triggered by the need to check a strong [+focus]-feature. It is shown that the analysis in terms of focus movement is well suited to capture the properties of interrogative constructions in Polish.

The Author: Maja Lubańska is a graduate of the University of Wrocław. Her main field of interest is generative linguistics and her primary research interest is the syntactic theory in the transformational-generative framework. Her M.A. thesis submitted to the Institute of English Studies at the University of Wrocław in 1998 was devoted to an analysis of scrambling in Polish. In 1998 she joined the Institute of English Studies at the University of Wrocław as a Ph.D. student. Since October 2004 she has been a faculty member of the institute, where she teaches a variety of courses on the English language.

Contents : Multiple wh -fronting - Wh -scope marking - Long-distance wh -extraction.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.2.2005
Reihe/Serie	Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes ; 278
Verlagsort	Frankfurt a.M.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	220 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Slavistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Bo¿kovic, Zeljko • Bošković, Źeljko • Chomsky, Noam • Ergänzungsfragesatz • focus • Lubanska • "Multiple ""Wh""-Frage" • Multiple "Wh"-Frage • Polnisch • questions • Russisch • Serbokroatisch • Stepanov, Arthur • W-Bewegung • «Wh»
ISBN-10	3-631-53503-1 / 3631535031
ISBN-13	978-3-631-53503-5 / 9783631535035
Zustand	Neuware