TY - JOUR AU - Onea, Edgar AU - Guntsetseg, Dolgor PY - 2019/05/06 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Focus and wh-Questions in Mongolian JF - Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung JA - SuB VL - 15 IS - 0 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/393 SP - 467-482 AB - <p>In this paper we propose an event-anaphor based analysis of Mongolian<br />focus constructions and <em>wh</em>-questions. Mongolian has two types of corresponding <em>wh</em>-question-answer paradigms involving either in situ or ex situ foci and <em>wh</em>-words. The apparent difference between these constructions involves exhaustiveness on the focus-side and presuppositionality on the question-side. The analysis, however, reveals that both contrasts amount to the presence or absence of an anaphoric event argument. We provide a large set of data that confirm the predictions of the analysis.</p> ER -