33.567, Books: Questions in context: Glasbergen-Plas

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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 09:54:08
From: Janacy van Duijn Genet [lot at uva.nl]
Subject: Questions in context: Glasbergen-Plas

 


Title: Questions in context 
Subtitle: the case of French wh-in-situ 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/questions-in-context 


Author: Aliza Glasbergen-Plas

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933912 Pages: 333 Price: Europe EURO 36


Abstract:

This dissertation investigates the properties of a particular type of
question, namely wh-in-situ questions in French. Using a combination of
quantitative and qualitative methods, it examines their properties from two
perspectives related to the context in which a question is uttered. These are
(a) the information structure of the sentence, specifically focus and
givenness, and (b) the distinction between regular information seeking
questions and echo questions.

An important result is the insight that French has two mechanisms to interpret
wh-in-situ questions, yielding potentially identical looking questions with
different properties. While certain speakers only have one of these mechanisms
to interpret wh-in-situ questions in their grammar, others, often younger
speakers, have both. This explains much of the data confusion regarding the
properties of French wh-in-situ questions. The dissertation particularly sheds
light on the prosody of these questions and the data variation concerning
intervention effects.

The investigation also provides more general insights into the relation
between wh-questions and aspects of the preceding context. While it is often
assumed that the focus in wh-questions necessarily equals the wh-phrase, the
dissertation shows experimentally that this is not the case in all languages.
In languages like French, what is focused may depend on the preceding context,
as in declaratives. The dissertation also provides insight into the prosody
and licensing conditions of echo questions. Finally, it suggests a direction
of research for contextually restricted wh-in-situ in wh-fronting languages
like English and German.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Subject Language(s): French (fra)


Written In: English  (eng)

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