Wh-Scope Marking
Uli Lutz, Gereon Müller, Arnim von Stechow
John Benjamins Publishing Company
This volume is the first comprehensive overview of the syntax and semantics of <i>wh</i>-scope marking. <i>Wh</i>-scope marking constructions have recently received a lot of attention; their very existence and their intricate properties have important consequences for syntax, semantics, and the syntax–semantics interface (e.g., with respect to the <i>wh</i>-criterion, the <i>wh</i>-movement parameter, feature checking, the theory of locality, the interpretation of <i>wh</i>-phrases and <i>why</i>-chains, and the nature of LF). The fifteen contributions share the basic assumptions of the Chomskyan approach to syntax and the model-theoretic approach to semantics; they address a variety of languages (among them German, Hindi, Hungarian, English, Frisian, Kikuyu, and Malay). A recurrent theme in all articles is whether <i>wh</i>-scope marking should be analyzed in terms of a direct, indirect, or mixed dependency. The wealth of cross-linguistic empirical evidence and the theory-independent relevance of the conclusions should make this book the ultimate source of information on wh-scope marking for years to come.