The Typology of Constituent Questions

This book explores and analyses the typology of constituent ('wh') questions within the non-derivational framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG).Part I examines fundamental features of constituent questions, focusing on syntax, semantics, information structure, and prosody.The chapters examine the roles of syntax and prosody in encoding information structure status and delimiting interrogative scope, and consider how these aspects of linguistic structure and their interfaces are modelled in LFG.Part II turns to the syntax and prosody of constituent questions in three case-study languages, each exemplifying a distinct constituent question formation strategy: in situ (Japanese), ex situ (Hungarian), and combined ex situ and in situ (English).One chapter also considers a further possibility for constituent question formation, namely scope marking constructions, exemplified by the Q-marking construction (partial 'wh' movement) in Hungarian and the bare Q-scope construction (bare scop