%0 Book
%A Samuel Alhassan Issah
%D 2020
%C Berlin, Germany
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 9783631825396
%T On the structure of A-bar constructions in Dagbani: Perspectives of «wh»-questions and fragment answers
%R 10.3726/b17097
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1057896
%X This book provides an account of the structure of A-bar constructions, focusing on wh-questions and fragment answers in Dagbani, a Mabia (Gur) language spoken in Northern Ghana. It demonstrates that Dagbani wh-phrases occur in two distinct positions, ex-situ and in-situ, except for subject wh-phrases, which only occur in the former position. It provides a theoretical analysis of the distribution of the wh-phrases couched within minimalism (Chomsky 1995). Finally, the book gives an account of the structural correlation between wh-questions and their answers with the focus on the syntactic derivation of fragment answers. The author contends that the derivation of fragment answer involves two processes: A-bar movement together with PF-deletion
%G English