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Generative-Transformational Studies in English Interrogatives

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The following pages constitute a survey of and commentary on generative-transformational research in segmental linguistic aspects of English interrogatives from Noam Chomsky’s Syntactic Structures (1957) through the present.1 The scope implied by this statement should render intelligible the omission of some sorts of prima facie relevant material: in general excluded from coverage are (i) treatments of the suprasegmental (prosodic) properties of English interrogatives (except where having a clear bearing on segmental properties (see §4.2)), or of paralinguistic properties of the same (except, again, where having a clear bearing on segmental properties (see §4.3, §5.2)); (ii) work based on pre-Chomskian and/or non-negative- transformational approaches (including possible generative but non-trans- formational or transformational but non-generative approaches),2 except where mention of such approaches seems especially useful to the continuity or integrity of the survey (e.g. in § 4.3.3.).

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Malone, J.L. (1978). Generative-Transformational Studies in English Interrogatives. In: Hiż, H. (eds) Questions. Synthese Language Library, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9509-3_2

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