On the unification of which -interrogatives and alternative-interrogatives

2025/03/01 by Yael Sharvit · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · #Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies #Linguistics and Discourse Analysis #Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

paper · doi:10.1515/ip-2025-0003

openalex publication_date 2025/03/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21

Abstract

Abstract Some similarities between alternative-interrogatives and which -interrogatives seem to support a unifying analysis. The paper discusses two such analyses, and the challenges they face, and some advantages and shortcomings of a non-unifying approach.

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