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Isogloss, 2023 In the last five decades, French wh in-situ has been the center of much work in theoretical linguistics. Nonetheless, scholars still disagree on the distribution of these constructions, and on their interpretation.
Lena Baunaz, Caterina Bonan
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Towards a Typology of wh-Doubling in Northern Italian Dialects
Languages, 2023 In this work we examine the distribution of wh-in-situ and short (i.e., clause internal) wh-doubling in Northern Italian dialects with the purpose of showing that wh-in-situ and wh-doubling are not unitary phenomena, since they are subject to different ...
Nicola Munaro, Cecilia Poletto
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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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On wh-movement in Spanish Echo Questions
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2017 This paper examines Spanish echo questions, an understudied phenomenon even in extensively described languages such as English. In particular, it focuses on a very particular type of echo questions, such as those made in response to a previous yes/no ...
Ekaterina Chernova
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Island-sensitivity of two different interpretations of why in Chinese
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 It has been assumed that the wh-element weishenme “why” in Chinese has two distinct interpretations: a reason reading, which typically yields yinwei “because”-answers, and a purpose reading, which typically triggers weile “in order to”-answers.
Nayoun Kim, Ziying Li, Jiayi Lu
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Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2006 This paper examines the spontaneous (and elicited) production of questions in 3 typically developing French children (1;8-2;10) and 11 French children with SLI (3;10-9;1).
Cornelia Hamann
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