Questions and syntactic islands in Tundra Yukaghir
No island effects are observable in Tundra Yukaghir questions, which are possible in virtually all syntactic environments. It is argued that this feature of Tundra Yukaghir relates to its capability of explicitly marking focus domains. If a question word occurs in a syntactic island, the whole islan...
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ftpubman:oai:pure.mpg.de:item_1539346 2023-08-20T04:10:12+02:00 Questions and syntactic islands in Tundra Yukaghir Matić, D. 2014 http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0014-4CB5-A eng eng http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0014-4CB5-A Information structure and reference tracking in complex sentences info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart 2014 ftpubman 2023-08-01T21:10:21Z No island effects are observable in Tundra Yukaghir questions, which are possible in virtually all syntactic environments. It is argued that this feature of Tundra Yukaghir relates to its capability of explicitly marking focus domains. If a question word occurs in a syntactic island, the whole island is morphologically treated as a focus domain. In order to take scope and function as question markers, question words must remain within the focus domain, i.e. in the island clause. This syntactic configuration is reflected in the semantics of question islands, which are used to inquire about the identity of the whole island, not merely the denotation of the question word. Book Part Tundra Yukaghir Max Planck Society: MPG.PuRe |
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No island effects are observable in Tundra Yukaghir questions, which are possible in virtually all syntactic environments. It is argued that this feature of Tundra Yukaghir relates to its capability of explicitly marking focus domains. If a question word occurs in a syntactic island, the whole island is morphologically treated as a focus domain. In order to take scope and function as question markers, question words must remain within the focus domain, i.e. in the island clause. This syntactic configuration is reflected in the semantics of question islands, which are used to inquire about the identity of the whole island, not merely the denotation of the question word. |
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