When we fail to question in Japanese

  • 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.

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Author details:Yoshihisa Kitagawa
URN:urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-24481
ISSN:1866-4725
ISSN:1614-4708
Title of parent work (German):Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632
Publisher:Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Place of publishing:Potsdam
Editor(s):Shinichiro Ishihara, Svetlana Petrova, Anne Schwarz
Publication type:Article
Language:English
Publication year:2007
Publishing institution:Universität Potsdam
Release date:2008/10/21
Tag:(implicit) prosody; Wh-question; focus; information structure; processing
Volume:9
First page:29
Last Page:64
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)
RVK - Regensburg classification:ER 300
Organizational units:Extern / Extern
Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik
DDC classification:4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
Collection(s):Universität Potsdam / Schriftenreihen / Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632, ISSN 1866-4725 / ISIS (2007) 09
Institution name at the time of the publication:Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Linguistik / Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
License (German):License LogoKeine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz
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Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Prosody, Syntax, and Information Structure (WPSI 2). -Potsdam : Univ.-Verl., 2007 - 118 S.(Interdisciplinary studies on information structure ; 9)
ISSN 1866-4725
URN: urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-22234
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