The structure of wh-utterances and the interpretation of wh-words in Romance (and Germanic) languages

罗曼语（和日耳曼语）语言中 wh 语句的结构和 wh 词的解释

• 批准号: 276390425
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Georg A. Kaiser
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Arbeitsgruppe Romanistische Sprachwissenschaft
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Units
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2015-12-31 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/276390425?language=en
• 关键词: structure; wh; utterances; interpretation; words

This project deals with word-order variation in utterances with wh-words across (old and modern) Romance languages. The central aim is to investigate the source of optional strategies in wh-utterances and the interaction between syntax, semantics and pragmatics as well as prosody in the construction of meaning. There are two main goals. Our first goal is to examine the syntactic strategies available to language to constrain inquisitive interpretations. To this end, we investigate microvariation in the Romance family (Spanish, French and (Brazilian) Portuguese as well as Italian and Raeto-Romance) building on our previous work on wh-in-situ questions and adding and extending it to echo questions, why-interrogatives (which present an interesting case regarding their availability with both subject-verb and verb-subject order), as well as quirky non-standard wh-clauses that we call qué-questions. Focusing mainly on echo questions (in Romance and Germanic languages) and qué-questions (mainly in Spanish), our second goal is to examine how the grammar encodes the relations between discourse moves. Questions provide a privileged window into the study of how discourse (structural) dependencies affect the overall interpretation of utterances. By examining the grammatical devices that modulate discourse relations we will develop a theory that allows sentence interpretation to be sensitive to discourse structure.

该项目涉及（古代和现代）罗曼语言中 wh 词的话语中的词序变化，其中心目标是研究 wh 话语中可选策略的来源以及语法、语义和语用以及语法之间的相互作用。我们的首要目标是研究语言可用于限制好奇解释的句法策略。 （西班牙语、法语和（巴西）葡萄牙语以及意大利语和 Raeto-Romance）以我们之前关于 wh-in-situ 问题的工作为基础，并添加和扩展它以回应问题、why 疑问句（这提出了一个关于他们的有趣的案例）主语-动词和动词-主语顺序的可用性），以及我们称为 qué 问题的古怪非标准 wh 子句，主要关注回声问题（在罗曼语和日耳曼语中）和qué-问题（主要是西班牙语），我们的第二个目标是检查语法如何编码话语动作之间的关系，通过检查话语（结构）依赖性如何影响话语的整体解释。调节语篇关系的语法手段我们将开发一种理论，使句子解释对语篇结构敏感。