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There are several phenomena generally thought to involve long-distance dependencies at LF, such as scope marking, long-distance list answers and correlatives. In this book they are handled by explicating novel types of local relationships that interrogative and relative clauses can enter. Amore articulated semantics is shown leading to a simpler syntax.
Among other issues addressed is the switch from uniqueness/maximality effects in single WH constructions to list readings in multiple WH constructions. These effects are captured by adapting the treatment of WH expressions as quantifying over functions to the cases of multiple WH questions and correlatives. List readings due to functional dependencies are systematically distinguished from those that are based on plurality.
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Book Title: Locality in WH Quantification
Book Subtitle: Questions and Relative Clauses in Hindi
Authors: Veneeta Dayal
Series Title: Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4808-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1996
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-5478-9Published: 31 March 1999
eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-4808-5Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0924-4662
Series E-ISSN: 2215-034X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 256
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Semantics, Computational Linguistics, Asian Languages