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Revisiting a null pronominal account for parasitic gaps in Japanese

open access: yesGlossa, 2018
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]

open access: yes, 2004
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*

open access: yes, 2018
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

open access: yes, 2022
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

open access: yesCadernos de Estudos Lingüísticos, 2011
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

open access: yes, 1997
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

open access: yesAnuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2004
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

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2016
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]

open access: yes, 2006
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

open access: yes, 2013
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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