A wh discourse particle: Dutch hoezo
This paper provides an analysis of a special kind of why-questions in Dutch, formed with the wh-word hoezo (lit. ‘how so’). We propose that hoezo signals the speaker’s resistance to updating the discourse model, by asking the interlocutor to provide a reason for their preceding discourse move. Hoezo shares properties with both discourse particles (its not-at-issue content expresses the speaker’s attitude towards the current state of the discourse), and question words (it asks the interlocutor to provide a reason). Unlike waarom (the regular word for ‘why’), hoezo is not subject to wh-movement... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2024 |
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Linguistic Society of America
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Schlagwörter: | why-questions / wh-questions / content questions / discourse particles / because-clauses / reasons / Dutch |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27415181 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/PLSA/article/view/5683 |
This paper provides an analysis of a special kind of why-questions in Dutch, formed with the wh-word hoezo (lit. ‘how so’). We propose that hoezo signals the speaker’s resistance to updating the discourse model, by asking the interlocutor to provide a reason for their preceding discourse move. Hoezo shares properties with both discourse particles (its not-at-issue content expresses the speaker’s attitude towards the current state of the discourse), and question words (it asks the interlocutor to provide a reason). Unlike waarom (the regular word for ‘why’), hoezo is not subject to wh-movement and does not bind a variable.