About what about: the semantics and syntax of irregular wh-questions in English

Although often used as diagnostic tools in discourse studies, irregular wh-questions in English, which take the form of what/how about … ? and what/how if … ?, have not received sufficient attention in terms of their semantic and syntactic properties. This article investigates irregular wh-questions...

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Main Authors: Li Wenshan, Liu Jiang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2023-01-01
Series:Linguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2020-0130