Romance Interrogative Syntax: Formal and typological dimensions of variation
Caterina Bonan
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 266] 2021. xiv, 252 pp.
Caterina Bonan
List of John Benjamins publications for which Caterina Bonan plays a role.
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Subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Article
2021 On focal and wh-projections, indirect wh-questions, and quantificational chains Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2017: Selected papers from 'Going Romance' 31, Bucharest, Nicolae, Alexandru and Adina Dragomirescu (eds.), pp. 73–90 | Chapter
In this chapter, I investigate the cartography of focus using novel data from non-standard Italian (non-StandIT) and Trevigiano, a Venetan dialect. I argue that focus is less constrained in indirect wh-questions in these varieties than in Standard Italian (StandIT). Indeed, in Trevigiano both… read more