Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1: Why in a Gbe language -- Reason questions as a complementizer domain phenomenon: Evidence from Ewe -- Part 2: Towards a cartography of high and low reason adverbials -- On 'why' in situ in Northern Italian dialects: Evidence from Trevisan -- Why questions break the residual V2 restriction (in Basque and beyond) -- Is German warum so special after all? -- Why in Dutch? On why-stripping and high and low adverbials -- Part 3: Wh-in-Situ languages: Whys, hows, and whats -- On applicative Why-questions in Chinese -- What-as-Why sentences in Cantonese -- Part 4: Some syntactic aspects of how come -- How come questions and diary English -- Part 5: A special class of why rhetorical questions: Semantics and pragmatics -- Why rhetorical questions? -- Part 6: Why and the syntax-prosody interface -- On some special properties of why in syntax and prosody -- Index of subjects