The Typology of Constituent Questions

Louise Mycock, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford

Louise Mycock is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics at the University of Oxford, Tutorial Fellow of Somerville College, and Lecturer at St Hugh's College. She received a PhD. from the University of Manchester in 2007 before taking up a Faculty of Humanities Research Fellowship at Manchester, and subsequently completing a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at Oxford. Between 2010 and 2016, she was a Departmental Lecturer in Syntax at Oxford, and was a visiting researcher at the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Part I. Fundamentals of the analysis1. Introducing constituent questions2. Lexical-Functional Grammar3. Analysing constituent question formation in Lexical-Functional GrammarPart II. Case studies4. In-situ language: Japanese5. Ex-situ language: Hungarian6. Combined ex-situ and in-situ language: English7. Scope marking constructionsPart III. Exploring the typological space8. The typology of constituent questions9. Conclusion