{"product_id":"why-is-why-unique-von-undefined","title":"Why is ‘Why’ Unique?","description":"\n                                \n                \u003cp\u003e\n                                        \n                    \u003cem\u003eWhy is ‘Why’ Unique? Its Syntactic and Semantic Properties\u003c\/em\u003e\n                                         considers the behaviour of this peculiar \n                    \n                    \u003cem\u003ewh\u003c\/em\u003e\n                                        -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 \n                    \n                    \u003cem\u003ewhy\u003c\/em\u003e\n                                        -questions, such as the way \n                    \n                    \u003cem\u003ewhy\u003c\/em\u003e\n                                         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 \n                    \n                    \u003cem\u003ewhy\u003c\/em\u003e\n                                        -stripping environments in Dutch. \n                \n                \u003c\/p\u003e\n                                 \n                \n                \u003cp\u003e\n                                        Beyond \n                    \n                    \u003cem\u003ewhy\u003c\/em\u003e\n                                         proper, the book explores a special class of \n                    \n                    \u003cem\u003ewh\u003c\/em\u003e\n                                        -expressions in some in-situ languages which give rise to unexpected \n                    \n                    \u003cem\u003ewhy\u003c\/em\u003e\n                                        -construals with a touch of whining force. The objective is to explain the unusual syntactic position of these \n                    \n                    \u003cem\u003ewh\u003c\/em\u003e\n                                        -expressions as well as their association with peculiar pragmatics. The questions are addressed for Cantonese: are \n                    \n                    \u003cem\u003ewhat\u003c\/em\u003e\n                                        -initial sentences genuine questions? To what extent are Cantonese \n                    \n                    \u003cem\u003ewhat\u003c\/em\u003e\n                                        -initial sentences similar to \n                    \n                    \u003cem\u003ehow\u003c\/em\u003e\n                                        -initial sentences in Mandarin? Beside these \n                    \n                    \u003cem\u003ewhat\u003c\/em\u003e\n                                        -as-\n                    \n                    \u003cem\u003ewhy\u003c\/em\u003e\n                                         questions, a special class of rhetorical questions, the doubly-marked interrogatives in Hebrew, come under scrutiny. \n                \n                \u003c\/p\u003e\n                                 \n                \n                \u003cp\u003eWhy is ‘why’ unique also concerns the interface with prosody and several experimental studies investigate precisely this aspect. \u003c\/p\u003e\n                            \n            \u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783110675115\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eIts Syntactic and Semantic Properties\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783111258706\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eIts Syntactic and Semantic Properties\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover - 9783110675115","offer_id":53921487782213,"sku":"9783110675115","price":149.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Softcover - 9783111258706","offer_id":54209783038277,"sku":"9783111258706","price":19.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/330420b4-1110-491b-aa67-0c01ccd304cc.jpg?v=1780721279","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/why-is-why-unique-von-undefined","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}