Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)

A Narrow Study on Two Forms of Wh-Question Concerning the Scope Ambiguity

Authors
Xinmeng Hou1, *
1College of Letter and Science, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 90001, California, U.S.
*Corresponding author. Email: dougur4magura@g.ucla.edu
Corresponding Author
Xinmeng Hou
Available Online 24 December 2021.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.211220.144How to use a DOI?
Keywords
scope ambiguity; wh-situ-in; wh-movement; syntax sturcture; semantics
Abstract

When talking about wh-movement, two basic forms will be considered. Languages with explicit wh-movement have syntactical form and logic form, whereas English has both forms. Other languages have varied mechanisms for posing constituents. For example, languages like Chinese and Japanese lack the wh-movement; wh-phrases remain their position in their surface structure. This article explores the differences in wh-question clarity regarding wh-situ-in and wh-movement and applies the scope principle. Chinese is chosen to be a subject language of wh-sui-in. English will be the language with both forms to be analyzed as the basal comparison object. It compares the ambiguous questions with wh-movement with the same question displaying wh-situ-in. And the quantifier category of wh-phrases, indefinite phrases, as well as adverb DOU will be discussed related to their syntactical connections with the subject.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
24 December 2021
ISBN
978-94-6239-495-7
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.211220.144How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
Open Access
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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