Wh -Optatives in Danish
Compositional and Noncompositional Aspects
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22994009 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bjarne Ørsnes (0000-0003-2046-2029, Copenhagen Business School, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 137-192 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Germanic Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1470-5427 • E-ISSN: 1475-3014 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1470542713000019 |
| OpenAlex | W1984803168 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 28 |
Danish has an optative taking the form of a wh -clause with embedded word order: Hvem der var rig! lit. ‘Who there were rich!’ with the intended meaning Wish I were rich! Such wh -clauses cannot be used as optatives in German or English (or only marginally so). On the basis of a detailed analysis of the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of this little-studied phenomenon, this article seeks to explain why a wh -clause with “embedded” word order can be used as an optative. I argue that wh -optatives are compositional in many but not all respects. It is a special construction whose interpretation is determined to a large extent by its grammatical properties but which also has completely idiosyncratic properties. In German and English, such wh -clauses are only potential optatives: They are not used as optatives, but nothing would preclude it.
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