On the Source of Interrogative Adverbs.

Cattell, Ray

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Publication Date: 1978

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On the Source of Interrogative Adverbs

Cattell, Ray

Language, 54, 1, 61-77, Mar 78

An analysis of the derivation of "why" and other interrogative adverbs shows that they do not involve the movement of NP's, and therefore do not present counter-examples to the NP Ecology Constraint. (Author/HP)

Descriptors: Adverbs, Generative Grammar, Linguistic Theory, Morphology (Languages), Semantics, Sentence Structure, Syntax, Transformational Generative Grammar, Verbs

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