Unveiling multiple wh- free relative clauses and their functional wh-words

IF 1.1 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Ivano Caponigro, Anamaria Fălăuș
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Abstract

We provide the first description and compositional semantic analysis of a construction that we label a "multiple wh - free relative clause" -- an embedded non-interrogative wh -clause with more than one wh -word. We show that multiple wh -free relative clauses are closely related to the more familiar free relative clauses with one wh -word ⎯- single wh - free relative clauses. We argue that an appropriate semantic analysis for multiple wh -free relative clauses can be grounded in the semantic analyses that have been proposed for single wh - free relative clauses, but crucially requires non-trivial broadening of the meaning of wh -words. Focusing on Romanian, we propose a compositional account of multiple wh - FRs building on two main components: (i) the assumption that wh -words can license complex traces/variables with a functional component -- an option that has been independently suggested for several other wh - constructions, and (ii) a new functional meaning for wh -words -- a close variant of the functional meaning of wh -words that has been independently proposed to account for functional wh - interrogative clauses. EARLY ACCESS
揭示多个无wh关系从句及其wh功能词
我们对一个结构进行了首次描述和成分语义分析,我们将其标记为“多个无wh关系从句”——一个包含多个wh词的嵌入式非疑问wh从句。我们发现,多个无wh关系从句与我们更熟悉的具有一个wh词的自由关系从句——单个无wh的关系从句——密切相关。我们认为,对多个无wh的关系从句进行适当的语义分析可以建立在对单个无wh关系从句进行语义分析的基础上,但关键是需要拓宽wh词的含义。以罗马尼亚语为中心,我们提出了一个基于两个主要成分的多个wh-FR的组合解释:(i)假设wh-词可以用一个功能成分许可复杂的痕迹/变量——这是其他几个wh-结构独立提出的选项,以及(ii)一种新的wh-词的功能意义——wh-词功能意义的密切变体,已被独立提出用于解释功能性wh-疑问从句。早期访问
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