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From the book Why is ‘Why’ Unique?

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110675160-toc
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Why is ‘Why’ Unique?
Why is ‘Why’ Unique?

Chapters in this book (14)

Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
Part 1: Why in a Gbe language
Reason questions as a complementizer domain phenomenon: Evidence from Ewe
Part 2: Towards a cartography of high and low reason adverbials
On ‘why’ in situ in Northern Italian dialects: Evidence from Trevisan
Why questions break the residual V2 restriction (in Basque and beyond)
Is German warum so special after all?
Why in Dutch? On why-stripping and high and low adverbials
Part 3: Wh-in-Situ languages: Whys, hows, and whats
On applicative Why-questions in Chinese
What-as-Why sentences in Cantonese
Part 4: Some syntactic aspects of how come
How come questions and diary English
Part 5: A special class of why rhetorical questions: Semantics and pragmatics
Why rhetorical questions?
Part 6: Why and the syntax-prosody interface
On some special properties of why in syntax and prosody
Index of subjects
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