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Wh-Clauses in English.
Aspects of Theory and Description.
TROTTA, Joe
Amsterdam/Atlanta, 2000, XIII, 237 pp.
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Language and Computers - Studies in Practical Linguistics 34
"a fact-filled and remarkably engaging read … The great virtue of WCE is that it is clearly presented, the data are consistently grounded in real usage, and that Trotta is careful to point out the problem areas."
The Linguist List - Sat Mar 16 2002
This study provides the first description-oriented, theoretically-unaligned account ofwh-clauses in Modern English. The author employs a data-based approach to examine aspects of both generative and non-generative work as regards their relative strengths and weaknesses.
Wh-clauses in English: Aspects of Theory and Description is a unique combination of statistical findings and qualitative analysis. It is not only underpinned by a systematic investigation of the Brown University corpus but also includes attested material from other sources such as the British National Corpus, the CobuildDirect corpus as well as material gleaned from the internet.
The qualitative and quantitative analyses are combined to approach a wide range of theoretical and descriptive issues, such as wh-movement, landing-sites for moved wh-XPs, vacuous movement, island constraints, among others. Not insignificantly, many questions of indeterminacy are addressed, such as the interface of conjunctions and relative words, the problems of demarcation between interrogatives and free relatives as well as structural ambiguities between interrogatives and exclamatives.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Symbols, abbreviations and language conventions
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Preliminaries
Chapter 3: Interrogatives
Chapter 4: Exclamatives
Chapter 5: Free relatives
Chapter 6: Bound relatives
Chapter 7: Summary and Conclusion
Appendices
References
Index
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