When we pay close attention to the prosody of Wh-questions in Japanese, we discover many novel and interesting empirical puzzles that would require us to devise a much finer syntactic component of grammar. This paper addresses the issues that pose some problems to such an elaborated grammar, and offers solutions, making an appeal to the information structure and sentence processing involved in the interpretation of interrogative and focus constructions.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:Potsdam/oai:kobv.de-opus-ubp:2448 |
| Date | January 2007 |
| Creators | Kitagawa, Yoshihisa |
| Contributors | Ishihara, Shinichiro (ed.), Petrova, Svetlana (ed.), Schwarz, Anne (ed.) |
| Publisher | Universität Potsdam, Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät. Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Extern. Extern |
| Source Sets | Potsdam University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Prosody, Syntax, and Information Structure (WPSI 2). - Potsdam : Univ.-Verl., 2007. - S. 29 - 64. - (Interdisciplinary studies on information structure ; 9) |
| Rights | http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/doku/urheberrecht.php |
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