{"product_id":"composing-questions-isbn-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\u003eHadas Kotek is a Lecturer at Yale University.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301103784165,"sku":"NP9780262536547","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262536547.jpg?v=1767724009","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/composing-questions-isbn-9780262536547","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}