Chapter 9. On the role of prosody in wh -in-situ
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Maia Duguine
Abstract
A growing number of works propose a direct role of PF in the generation of wh-in-situ. Relying mainly on data from Basque, we critically evaluate two such proposals (Richards, 2010; Mathieu, 2016) and argue that they face a range of empirical and conceptual shortcomings. We contrast these with the more “syntactocentric” proposal of Cheng & Rooryck (2000) for French, based on an intonational Q-morpheme that surfaces as a final rise in polar and wh-in-situ questions. We report the outcome of a production experiment providing evidence that the final rises of polar and wh-in-situ questions in Navarro-Labourdin Basque do not differ substantially, thus suggesting that Cheng & Rooryck’s (2000) proposal may be extended to this variety cohabiting with French.
Abstract
A growing number of works propose a direct role of PF in the generation of wh-in-situ. Relying mainly on data from Basque, we critically evaluate two such proposals (Richards, 2010; Mathieu, 2016) and argue that they face a range of empirical and conceptual shortcomings. We contrast these with the more “syntactocentric” proposal of Cheng & Rooryck (2000) for French, based on an intonational Q-morpheme that surfaces as a final rise in polar and wh-in-situ questions. We report the outcome of a production experiment providing evidence that the final rises of polar and wh-in-situ questions in Navarro-Labourdin Basque do not differ substantially, thus suggesting that Cheng & Rooryck’s (2000) proposal may be extended to this variety cohabiting with French.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
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Section I. Dialectology
- Chapter 1. The syntactic tradition in the Spanish linguistic atlases 15
- Chapter 2. Using linguistic atlases to explore syntactic issues 35
- Chapter 3. The negative expressions in three dialectal repertoires 77
- Chapter 4. A microsyntactic study of Pyrenean negative emphatic polarity particles with the help of data from linguistic atlases 109
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Section II. Current perspectives on variation
- Chapter 5. Syntactic features and dialect areas in European Spanish 149
- Chapter 6. Feature analysis of neuter gender in Spanish and Asturian languages 175
- Chapter 7. Parameters of clitic combination 203
- Chapter 8. Gerund structures in Ecuadorian Spanish 225
- Chapter 9. On the role of prosody in wh -in-situ 263
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Section III. New tools to approach syntactic variation
- Chapter 10. ASinEs 297
- Chapter 11. The Corpus del español del siglo XXI ( CORPES XXI ) 319
- Chapter 12. Using Twitter to build a corpus for linguistic variation 347
- Language index 381
- Subject index 383
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
-
Section I. Dialectology
- Chapter 1. The syntactic tradition in the Spanish linguistic atlases 15
- Chapter 2. Using linguistic atlases to explore syntactic issues 35
- Chapter 3. The negative expressions in three dialectal repertoires 77
- Chapter 4. A microsyntactic study of Pyrenean negative emphatic polarity particles with the help of data from linguistic atlases 109
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Section II. Current perspectives on variation
- Chapter 5. Syntactic features and dialect areas in European Spanish 149
- Chapter 6. Feature analysis of neuter gender in Spanish and Asturian languages 175
- Chapter 7. Parameters of clitic combination 203
- Chapter 8. Gerund structures in Ecuadorian Spanish 225
- Chapter 9. On the role of prosody in wh -in-situ 263
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Section III. New tools to approach syntactic variation
- Chapter 10. ASinEs 297
- Chapter 11. The Corpus del español del siglo XXI ( CORPES XXI ) 319
- Chapter 12. Using Twitter to build a corpus for linguistic variation 347
- Language index 381
- Subject index 383
