{"product_id":"composing-questions-book-hadas-kotek-9780262536547","title":"Composing Questions","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn investigation of the syntax and semantics of wh-questions through the lens of intervention effects, offering a new proposal on overt and covert \u003ci\u003ewh\u003c\/i\u003e-movement.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this book, Hadas Kotek investigates the syntax and semantics of wh-questions, offering a new solution to a central question in the study of interrogatives: given that overt wh-movement is cross-linguistically common, is syntactic movement a prerequisite for the interpretation of \u003ci\u003ewh\u003c\/i\u003e-phrases? Some linguists argue that all wh-phrases undergo movement to interrogative C, even if covertly; others propose mechanisms of in-situ interpretation that do not require any movement. Kotek moves beyond these positions to argue that \u003ci\u003ewh\u003c\/i\u003e-in-situ does move covertly, but not necessarily to C. Instead, she contends, \u003ci\u003ewh\u003c\/i\u003e-in-situ undergoes a short movement step akin to covert scrambling. This makes the LF behavior of English parallel to the overt behavior of German.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKotek presents a series of self-paced reading experiments, alongside judgment data from German, to substantiate the idea of covert scrambling. She introduces new diagnostics for the underlying structure of questions, using as a principal tool the distribution of intervention effects. This system allows her to offer the first unified account for a range of phenomena of interrogative syntax-semantics as pied-piping, superiority effects, the cross-linguistically varied syntax of questions, and intervention effects.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKotek develops a theory of interrogative syntax-semantics; studies the phenomena of intervention effects in \u003ci\u003ewh\u003c\/i\u003e-questions, proposing that the nature of intervention is crucially tied to the availability of wh-movement in a question; and shows that covert \u003ci\u003ewh\u003c\/i\u003e-movement should be modeled as a short scrambling operation rather than an unbounded, successive-cyclic, and potentially long-distance movement operation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50452492452113,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50452494287121,"sku":"CIN0262536544VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53687378182417,"sku":"GOR015002831","price":28.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0262536544.jpg?v=1786711054","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/composing-questions-book-hadas-kotek-9780262536547","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}