A Corpus-Assisted Analysis of Conjoined Wh-Questions in English

Marian Alves-Castro; Azler García-Palomino

doi:10.18172/jes.6612

Autores/as

Marian Alves-Castro University of the Basque Country https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9150-7656
Azler García-Palomino University of the Basque Country https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0195-6293

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18172/jes.6612

Palabras clave:

lingüística de corpus, sintaxis, coordinación, lenguas mixtas, interrogativas parciales, argumentos opcionales

Resumen

Este estudio de corpus investiga oraciones interrogativas que comienzan con dos o más sintagmas interrogativos coordinados (por ejemplo, When and where did they first meet?). Investigaciones previas indican que en inglés se acepta la coordinación de adjuntos, mientras que la de argumentos es sistemáticamente rechazada; la coordinación mixta (adjunto y argumento) muestra mayor variabilidad. Con datos del Corpus of Contemporary American English se confirma que el inglés favorece abrumadoramente la coordinación de adjuntos (más del 90% de los casos), mientras que la coordinación mixta es poco frecuente (menos del 8%) y la de argumentos casi nula. Todos los argumentos coordinados que aparecen en los datos son opcionales, lo que sugiere restricciones estructurales en estas interrogativas. Finalmente, los datos respaldan un análisis bi-oracional, reforzando la idea de que los sintagmas interrogativos coordinados se originan en cláusulas separadas.

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