{"product_id":"why-is-why-unique-9783111258706","title":"Why is 'Why' Unique?","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): No Contributor\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Linguistics - Syntax\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhy is 'Why' Unique? Its Syntactic and Semantic Properties\u003c\/em\u003e considers the behaviour of this peculiar \u003cem\u003ewh\u003c\/em\u003e-element across many different languages, including Ewe, Trevisan, Italian, Basque, German, Dutch, Cantonese, Mandarin, English and Hebrew. In ten original chapters, the authors explore various aspects of \u003cem\u003ewhy\u003c\/em\u003e-questions, such as the way \u003cem\u003ewhy\u003c\/em\u003e interacts with V2 constructions in Basque, with a subject clitic in Trevisan or how its morpho-syntactic make-up determines its merge position in Ewe, to mention but a few. Furthermore, a clear-cut distinction is established between high and low reason adverbials which are subsequently examined in \u003cem\u003ewhy\u003c\/em\u003e-stripping environments in Dutch. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeyond \u003cem\u003ewhy\u003c\/em\u003e proper, the book explores a special class of \u003cem\u003ewh\u003c\/em\u003e-expressions in some in-situ languages which give rise to unexpected \u003cem\u003ewhy\u003c\/em\u003e-construals with a touch of whining force. The objective is to explain the unusual syntactic position of these \u003cem\u003ewh\u003c\/em\u003e-expressions as well as their association with peculiar pragmatics. The questions are addressed for Cantonese: are \u003cem\u003ewhat\u003c\/em\u003e-initial sentences genuine questions? To what extent are Cantonese \u003cem\u003ewhat\u003c\/em\u003e-initial sentences similar to \u003cem\u003ehow\u003c\/em\u003e-initial sentences in Mandarin? Beside these \u003cem\u003ewhat\u003c\/em\u003e-as-\u003cem\u003ewhy\u003c\/em\u003e questions, a special class of rhetorical questions, the doubly-marked interrogatives in Hebrew, come under scrutiny. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy is 'why' unique also concerns the interface with prosody and several experimental studies investigate precisely this aspect. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Walter de Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45165628326039,"sku":"9783111258706","price":1768.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783111258706.webp?v=1768573364","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/why-is-why-unique-9783111258706","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}