Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Part 1: Why in a Gbe language
5. Reason questions as a complementizer domain phenomenon: Evidence from Ewe 23
6. Part 2: Towards a cartography of high and low reason adverbials
7. On ‘why’ in situ in Northern Italian dialects: Evidence from Trevisan 41
8. Why questions break the residual V2 restriction (in Basque and beyond) 63
9. Is German warum so special after all? 115
10. Why in Dutch? On why-stripping and high and low adverbials 151
11. Part 3: Wh-in-Situ languages: Whys, hows, and whats
12. On applicative Why-questions in Chinese 197
13. What-as-Why sentences in Cantonese 219
14. Part 4: Some syntactic aspects of how come
15. How come questions and diary English 249
16. Part 5: A special class of why rhetorical questions: Semantics and pragmatics
17. Why rhetorical questions? 273
18. Part 6: Why and the syntax-prosody interface
19. On some special properties of why in syntax and prosody 293
20. Index of subjects 317