Interrogative "inversion": syntax and semantics at the interface

疑问句“倒置”：接口处的语法和语义

• 批准号: 2750999
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2750999
• 关键词: Interrogative; inversion; syntax; semantics; interface

In many languages, the interrogative interpretation is triggered by a process commonly referred to with the labelinterrogative inversion, that is, an upward movement of the inflected verb past another element bearing subject features,which can result in the inverted linear position of the two elements. Nevertheless, this label is not adequate, as thisprocess does not occur only in main interrogative sentences. In many of the varieties which possess it, inversion can beassociated with several interpretations, and the interrogative one is only one of them. The aim of the research I amproposing is to find out how languages (Romance varieties, in particular) trigger those interpretations, to what extentsubject-verb inversion results grammatical and what other ways languages have to convey those readings. "Inversion" isnot uniformly acceptable across Romance varieties, as depending on the language it interacts with different parametricchoices. Precisely for the transversal nature of this phenomenon, this study can prove useful to cast light on other lively-debated issues, such as clausal-typing, the structure of the CP layer. the encoding of indexicality, the status of subjectclitics and, as some restrictions in Northern Italian dialects can show, the structure of copular sentences.

在许多语言中，疑问句的解释是由一个过程触发的，这个过程通常被称为“疑问句倒装”（labelinterrogative inversion），也就是说，动词的屈折变化经过另一个具有主语特征的成分时，会导致这两个成分的线性位置颠倒。然而，这个标签是不够的，因为这个过程并不只发生在主要的疑问句。在许多具有倒装的变体中，倒装可以与几种解释联系在一起，疑问句只是其中之一。我提议的研究的目的是找出语言（特别是罗曼语）是如何触发这些解读的，主谓倒置在多大程度上导致了语法上的结果，以及语言有哪些其他方式来传达这些解读。“倒装”在罗曼语中并不是一致接受的，因为它取决于与不同参数选择相互作用的语言。正是由于这种现象的横向性质，这项研究可以证明是有用的投光其他生动的辩论问题，如claim类型，CP层的结构。索引性的编码，主语的地位，以及北方意大利方言中的一些限制，系动词句的结构。