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Revisiting a null pronominal account for parasitic gaps in Japanese
This paper investigates empty categories in Japanese that show behavior that is apparently similar to parasitic gaps in that they allow bound readings only with movement of the wh-phrase.
Hitomi Hirayama
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Wh-Scoping in Syntactic Wh-Fronting Languages [PDF]
This paper examines various types of syntactic wh-fronting languages in order to offer a non-derivational account of wh-scoping in these languages. While English is commonly regarded as a typical wh-fronting language, it also exhibits an in-situ type of ...
Yoo, Eun-Jung
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Wh- In Situ Production in Child French*
This article addresses claims that French children produce more wh-in situ questions than adults, and that this is motivated by a desire for more “economical” structure in regard to wh-question formation. Experimental results of an elicitation study with
Gotowski, Megan
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Subjacency effects on overt wh-movement in wh-in-situ languages: Evidence for nominal structure
This paper investigates whether overt wh-movement in Korean, a wh-in-situ language, triggers Subjacency violations in the same set of bounding configurations as English. Yoon (2013) and Jung (2015) showed that Korean wh-islands display Subjacency effects,
Dubinsky, Stanley, Park, Keunhyung
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AS INTERROGATIVAS-Q NA GRAMÁTICA INFANTIL DO PB
The aim of this text is to describe the wh-questions observed in the corpus of a child – Gabriela – in the process of acquiring Brazilian Portuguese during the period of 2;04 to 3;10. As many grammatical changes –e.g.
Nilmara Soares Sikansi
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Wh-in-situ phenomena in French
The goal of this thesis is to provide an alternative theory of how wh-expressions are interpreted. I propose that French wh-words are interpreted through an A-bar binding relation subject to a modified Generalized Binding Theory (cf.
Chang, Lisa
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Preguntas múltiples en euskera
This paper evaluates Bošković's (1999) proposal with respect to question formation in Basque. This language allows two strategies to ask a question such as «who bought what?». One possibility is that one wh-phrase fronts and the other stays in situ.
Lara Reglero
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Islands and non-islands in native and heritage Korean
To a large extent, island phenomena are cross-linguistically invariable, but English and Korean present some striking differences in this domain. English has wh-movement and Korean does not, and while both languages show sensitivity to wh-islands, only ...
Boyoung eKim, Grant eGoodall
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More on in situ WH- and focus constructions in Hausa [PDF]
Hausa is conventionally analyzed as having only one strategy for both focus and wh-constructions--fronting, with special inflectional marking on the TAM.
Jaggar, Philip J.
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The interaction of syntax, prosody, and discourse in licensing French wh-in-situ questions
International audienceThe current experiment addresses the proposal by Cheng and Rooryk (2000) that wh-in-situ questions in French are marked by an obligatory rising contour, which is the result of an intonation morpheme [Q:] in C.
Kawahara, Shigeto +2 more
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