Decomposing adverbs and complementizers: A case study of Dutch 'hoe' (how)
This chapter examines the syntax of the Dutch wh-element hoe ‘how’ in two of its grammatical uses: its use as an interrogative manner ‘adverb’ (hoeQ(uestion)), and its use as a non-interrogative conjunctive element (referred to as hoeE(ventive)). It is proposed that the two instances of hoe can be reduced to a single linguistic expression, namely a nominal expression. HoeQ starts out as the complement of a silent adposition which heads a PP. This PP is moved to the clausal left periphery, specifically to the Spec-position of a dummy adpositional ‘conjunction’ that surfaces as of ‘if/whether’ o... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Part of book |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2023 |
Schlagwörter: | Dutch / hoeQuestion / hoeEventive / adpositional conjunction / nominal clause-marker / symmetry / Taverne |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/436375 |