The Syntax of Wh-Questions in Vietnamese: Intralinguistic and Crosslinguistic Perspectives - Couverture souple

Tsai, Cheng-Yu Edwin

 
9783844383584: The Syntax of Wh-Questions in Vietnamese: Intralinguistic and Crosslinguistic Perspectives
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3844383581 ISBN 13 : 9783844383584
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

Wh-in-situ is one of the central issues to the research of syntax in natural languages. However, related phenomena in South East Asian languages are still poorly understood. From a formal syntactic perspective, this monograph examines closely various wh-constructions in Vietnamese through island conditions, intervention effects and indefinite wh-construal, and proposes an unselective binding analysis that is different from a recent study. In addition to language-internal phenomena, this book also addresses the crosslinguistic typology of wh-in-situ by comparing a number of unrelated languages within the Minimalist Program approach. It is hoped that the current study can contribute to our understanding of the syntactic structure of Vietnamese specifically, and to the research agenda of wh-in-situ more generally.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Wh-in-situ is one of the central issues to the research of syntax in natural languages. However, related phenomena in South East Asian languages are still poorly understood. From a formal syntactic perspective, this monograph examines closely various wh-constructions in Vietnamese through island conditions, intervention effects and indefinite wh-construal, and proposes an unselective binding analysis that is different from a recent study. In addition to language-internal phenomena, this book also addresses the crosslinguistic typology of wh-in-situ by comparing a number of unrelated languages within the Minimalist Program approach. It is hoped that the current study can contribute to our understanding of the syntactic structure of Vietnamese specifically, and to the research agenda of wh-in-situ more generally.

Biographie de l'auteur

Cheng-Yu Edwin Tsai received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from National Chung Cheng University in 2006 and M.A. in Linguistics from National Tsing Hua University in 2009, both in Taiwan. He is currently a graduate student in the Department of Linguistics at Harvard University.

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3844383581
ISBN 13 
9783844383584
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
148
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