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Prominence and Locality in Grammar: The Syntax and Semantics of Wh-Questions and Reflexives

Prominence and Locality in Grammar: The Syntax and Semantics of Wh-Questions and Reflexives

Hu, Jianhua

Paperback

Series: Routledge Studies in Chinese Linguistics

Foreign Language GeneralWriting InstructionGeneral Education

ISBN10: 1032401451
ISBN13: 9781032401454
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 29 2022
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

This book challenges the current consensus on the analysis of wh-questions and reflexives from the perspective of the syntax-semantics interface. An integrated approach incorporating analyses of the interaction between different levels of linguistic knowledge is proposed. It argues that the derivation and interpretation of wh-questions and reflexives are not purely syntactic in nature but are regulated by principles operating at the syntax-semantics interface. Two general principles underlying our knowledge of language and cognition are proposed in this work. One is the Principle of Locality, and the other is the Principle of Prominence. It shows that although wh-quantification and reflexivization belong to two different domains of study in generative grammar, their derivation and interpretation are basically constrained by the complex interaction between prominence and locality in grammar.

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