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Restrictions on wh-in situ in Kavalan and Amis [PDF]
Lingua, 2016 This paper investigates the grammatical properties of wh-in situ constructions in Kavalan and Amis, two Austronesian languages in Taiwan. In Kavalan, wh-phrases cannot stay in situ in the absolutive subject position, except for mayni ‘which’. However, all Amis wh-phrases, regardless of their case marking or grammatical function, can stay in situ.
Lin, Dong-yi, Dong-yi Lin
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On the left periphery of ‘optional’ wh-in-situ: Evidence from Greek
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi OrientaliA recent generalization about ‘optional’ wh-in-situ states that wh-in-situ questions are blocked in selected contexts, where the only grammatical option is wh-fronting.
Christos Vlachos
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In situ mixed wh-coordination and the argument/adjunct distinction
Glossa, 2020 One of the most important results of syntactic inquiry has been a detailed empirical and, to some extent, theoretical understanding of the argument/adjunct distinction, which underlies a wide array of superficially different phenomena.
Erik Zyman
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Licensing long-distance wh-in-situ in Malayalam [PDF]
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2017 It is generally thought that wh-in-situ, like overt movement, is potentially unbounded. At the same time, certain languages have been argued to disallow long-distance wh-in-situ. This paper argues that even in languages that show apparent clause-boundedness effects, wh-in-situ, like wh-movement, can in principle cross an arbitrary number of clauses ...
Aravind, Athulya, Athulya Aravind
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Do Persian Native Speakers Prosodically Mark Wh-in-situ Questions? [PDF]
Lang Speech, 2019 It has been shown that prosody contributes to the contrast between declarativity and interro- gativity, notably in interrogative utterances lacking lexico-syntactic features of interrogativity. Accordingly, it may be proposed that prosody plays a role in
Shiamizadeh Z, Caspers J, Schiller NO.
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Edge Features and Multiple Wh-Questions
Cadernos de Linguística, 2021 Building on Chomsky’s (2000) proposal that A’-movement is triggered by an EPP-type of feature added to phase heads and Bošković’s (2007) proposal that the relevant feature is to be found on the moving element itself, Nunes (2020) has argued that these ...
Jairo Nunes
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From northern Italian to Asian wh-in situ: A theory of low focus movement
Isogloss, 2021 The mainstream literature on the Romance dialects of northern Italy has explained the morphosyntax of clause-internal wh-elements in answer-seeking interrogatives as either the result of interrogative movement into the lower portion of the high left ...
Caterina Bonan
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Prosody, clause typing, and wh-in-situ: Evidence from Mandarin
Laboratory Phonology, 2020 This paper examines the use of prosody for marking upcoming linguistic material in speech production and for anticipating them in speech perception. More specifically, it examines whether in the absence of any overt morphosyntactic cues in the beginning ...
Jenny Doetjes +3 more
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The Distribution of Wh-word in Single Wh-Questions in Persian [PDF]
زبان پژوهی, 2019 By investigating the distribution of wh-word insingle Wh-questions in Persian through a qualitative method in terms of the theory of Derivational Approach (Epstein et al., 1998) and Feature-Free Syntax (Boeckx, 2015) we intend to explain why wh-word is ...
Ahmadreza Sharifipur shirazi +1 more
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Wh-question formation in Lokạạ
Journal of African Languages and Literatures, 2023 This paper discusses wh-questions in the Benue-Congo language, Lokạạ. The different strategies of wh-question formation are examined. It is observed that in addition to the ex-situ and in-situ strategies, the language allows partial wh-movement under ...
Mary Amaechi
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