Query Details
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Qs: Textling. Confs, temporality in narr. texts
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| Author: | Miura Ikuo | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Syntax
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| Subject Language(s): |
English
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Sat, 5 Sep 1998 13:39:08 +0900 (JST)
Miura Ikuo a966702d@eds.ecip.nagoya-u.ac.jp Multiple wh-questions Dear linguists, I am going to write a peper about multiple wh-quesitons. So I would like to know the grammatical status of some English multiple wh-quesitons. In the literature, it is observed that while the sentence in (1a) is grammatical, the corresponding (1b) is not. (1) a. Who said what? b. What did who say? First, I want to know whether the following pairs of sentences exhibit the same contrast as in (1). (2) a. Whose mother bought what? b. What did whose mother buy? (3) a. People from where bought what? b. What did people from where buy? (4) a. Tell me whose advisor is where. b. Tell me Where whose advisor is? The sentences in (2a) and (3a) are from Stroik (1995), who says that they are grammatical. But he doesn't mention about the grammaticality of (2b) and (3b). In the literature, psych-verbs like 'worry' and 'annoy' which take the experiencer argument as the object behave differently from verbs like 'say' with respect to some phenomena like anaphor binding. So I want to know whether or not multiple wh-questions of psych-verbs like (5) and (6) exhibit the same grammticality of (1). (5) a. What worries who? b. Who does what worry? (6) a. What annoies who? b, Who does what annoy? If you can help, please reply to me personally. Thank you. Ikuo Miura (a966702d@eds.ecip.nagoya-u.ac.jp) Reference Stroik, Thomas S. (1995) ''Some Remarks on Superiority Effects,'' Lingua 95, 239-258. |
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| LL Issue: | 9.1233 | |
| Date posted: | 07-Sep-1998 | |
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