Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: In this paper we describe and analyse a particular scope marking construction that has not received attention in the generative literature so far: scope marking into relative and noun-associate clauses, which we will refer to as adjunct scope marking . In this type of scope marking system, a wh -element in an embedded adjunct clause takes matrix scope when it occurs in a clause that syntactically and semantically modifies a wh -phrase in the matrix. These facts provide unambiguous evidence for the indirect dependency approach to wh -scope marking advocated by Dayal (1994, Natural Language Semantics, 2 , 137–190; 2000, Scope Marking: Cross linguistic variation in direct dependency. In U. Lutz, G. Müller, & A. V. Stechow (Eds.), Scope Marking (pp. 157–193). Amsterdam: John Benjamins), where the embedded question provides a semantic restriction for the matrix wh -element. Dayal’s theory will be extended to provide a compositional analysis of these constructions. The extended approach argues for a generalization of the question-formation procedure to different clause types, as first advocated in Sternefeld (2001, Partial movement constructions, pied piping, and higher order choice functions. In C. Féry, & W. Sternefeld (Eds.), Audiatur Vox Sapientiae. A Festschrift for Arnim von Stechow (pp. 473–486). Berlin: Akademieverlag).
Authors: Anikó Lipták, Malte Zimmermann
Institutions: Leiden University, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,090
Award: G6669083015
OpenAlex ID: W1998778540