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

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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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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xinmeng Hou
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/12/24
TI  - A Narrow Study on Two Forms of Wh-Question Concerning the Scope Ambiguity
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 836
EP  - 840
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211220.144
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.144
ID  - Hou2021
ER  -