TY - JOUR A1 - Kitagawa, Yoshihisa A2 - Ishihara, Shinichiro A2 - Petrova, Svetlana A2 - Schwarz, Anne T1 - When we fail to question in Japanese T2 - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632 N2 - When we pay close attention to the prosody of Wh-questions in Japanese, we discover many novel and interesting empirical puzzles that would require us to devise a much finer syntactic component of grammar. This paper addresses the issues that pose some problems to such an elaborated grammar, and offers solutions, making an appeal to the information structure and sentence processing involved in the interpretation of interrogative and focus constructions. KW - focus KW - (implicit) prosody KW - information structure KW - processing KW - Wh-question Y1 - 2008 UR - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2262 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-24481 SN - 1866-4725 SN - 1614-4708 VL - 9 SP - 29 EP - 64 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER -