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From obligatory WH-movement to optional WH-in-situ in Labourdin Basque
Language, 2014In this article, we analyze the nature and origin of a new WH-question strategy employed by young speakers of Labourdin Basque. We argue that this new strategy implies a parametric change: while Basque has always been a bona fide WH-movement language, these new constructions are ...
Duguine, Maia, Irurtzun, Aritz
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The licensing of wh-in-situ questions
2020Abstract This project investigates the intonational characteristics of information-seeking wh-in-situ and yes/no questions in Spanish. Data from eight Spanish-Basque bilinguals show that while the former tend to display final ...
Carolina González, Lara Reglero
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Wh-in-situ phenomena in French
2009The 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. Aoun, 1985; henceforth GBT) which is an LF module of the Minimalist Framework (Chomsky, 1995).
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Wh-prosody, locality, and lexical pitch accent in wh-in-situ languages
2023231 pages ; In this dissertation, I investigate how prosody interacts with wh-scope in wh-in-situ languages, focusing on Japanese and Korean. In addition to this question, I also discuss why there is so much variation in the prosodic realization of wh-scope in Japanese and Korean, which is relevant to the main research question.
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Wh-In-Situ and Movement in Sinhala Questions
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2005This article shows that Sinhala, a wh-in-situ language, implements movement of a Q-element to determine the scope of wh-phrases; this movement, which displays the behavior of a phrasal category, may be induced either in overt syntax or in LF. Covert Q-movement observes island conditions in the same manner as overt phrasal category movement.
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Since Huang’s seminal work on comparative syntax, the research on the structure and properties of in-situ wh-expressions has come a long way. This article distinguishes four types of wh-constructions in terms of Q(uestion)-operator binding and the morpho-syntactic makeup of individual languages.
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Cypriot anomalies in Wh-in-situ structures
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Givenness and the difference between wh-fronted and wh-in-situ questions in Spanish
2018In the last fifteen years, the literature on wh-questions has tried to understand speakers’ intuitions regarding the meaning differences between wh-in-situ (WIQs) and wh-fronted (WFQs) questions. The different proposals agree in that WIQs require givenness, but there is no consensus on what notion of givenness is at stake. In this paper I argue that in
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