Unveiling Multiple wh- Free Relative Clauses and their functional wh-words
| Autor: | Anamaria Fălăuș, Ivano Caponigro |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes (LLING), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Nantes - UFR Lettres et Langages (UFRLL), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | Semantics and Pragmatics Semantics and Pragmatics, Linguistic Society of America, 2020, 13, ⟨10.3765/sp.13.2⟩ |
| ISSN: | 1937-8912 |
| DOI: | 10.3765/sp.13.2⟩ |
| Popis: | We provide the first description and compositional semantic analysis of a construction that we label a "multiple wh - free relative clause" -- an embedded non-interrogative wh -clause with more than one wh -word. We show that multiple wh -free relative clauses are closely related to the more familiar free relative clauses with one wh -word ⎯- single wh - free relative clauses. We argue that an appropriate semantic analysis for multiple wh -free relative clauses can be grounded in the semantic analyses that have been proposed for single wh - free relative clauses, but crucially requires non-trivial broadening of the meaning of wh -words. Focusing on Romanian, we propose a compositional account of multiple wh - FRs building on two main components: (i) the assumption that wh -words can license complex traces/variables with a functional component -- an option that has been independently suggested for several other wh - constructions, and (ii) a new functional meaning for wh -words -- a close variant of the functional meaning of wh -words that has been independently proposed to account for functional wh - interrogative clauses. EARLY ACCESS |
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