The Grammar of Q: Q-Particles, Wh-Movement, and Pied-Piping

by Seth Cable

Book Overview

The Grammar of Q puts forth a novel syntactic and semantic analysis of wh-questions, one that is based upon in-depth study of the Tlingit language, an endangered and under-documented language of North America. A major consequence of this new approach is that the phenomenon classically dubbed "pied-piping" does not actually exist.

Cable begins by arguing that wh-fronting in Tlingit does not involve a syntactic relationship between interrogative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195392272
• ISBN13: 9780195392272
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"