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French adverbial clauses: rescue by ellipsis and the truncation vs. intervention debate [PDF]
, 2015 This paper investigates the restrictions on movement to the left periphery found in non-root environments such as French central adverbial clauses and argues that an analysis of main clause phenomena based on intervention/Relativized Minimality is to be ...
Authier, Jean-Marc, Haegeman, Liliane
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Q-particles and the nature of Covert movement: Evidence from Buli
Glossa, 2019 There are a number of intriguing issues surrounding wh-questions that have drawn considerable attention in the literature. Among the most commonly observed is the fact that in certain languages, wh-phrases move overtly from their base-generated positions
Abdul-Razak Sulemana
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Covert partial wh-movement and the nature of derivations
Glossa, 2016 Wh-movement is commonly thought to be caused by a syntactic probing operation, initiated by an interrogative probe on C, which triggers subsequent movement to the specifier of C.
Hadas Kotek
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On Wh-Elements in Central Kurdish: A Minimalist Approach
Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences, 2020 The paper sheds light on the status of wh-elements in Central Kurdish (CK) with respect to the framework of the Minimalist Program (MP). From across the globe, there exist various types of languages whose wh-elements behave according to wh-parameter ...
Salih Ibrahim Ahmed
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Constraints on multiple dependencies in the left-periphery in European Portuguese
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2020 This paper focuses on intervention effects obtained by embedding a topic constituent (either a displaced topic or a clitic left-dislocated topic) within the domain of wh-movement.
Cecília Castro +4 more
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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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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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NZ- in situ euskaraz: gazteen nafar-lapurterazko galdera-estrategia berri bat
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 2010 In this article we analyze some new Wh-question constructions that are found in the speech of navarro-labourdin young speakers. After reviewing the structure of the standard Wh-question formation strategy and that of the reinforced strategy which is ...
Maia Duguine, Aritz Irurtzun
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"Wh"-phrases and "wh"-in-situ in Late Archaic Chinese
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2021 In this paper I explore wh-phrases and wh-in-situ in Late Archaic Chinese (LAC). Simplex and complex wh-phrases in LAC can be divided into eleven semantic categories.
Aiqing Wang
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On the status of wh-chains with a spelled-out foot
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2008 The syntax of wh-questions has been largely investigated for several languages, basically focusing on their movement operations. In this paper I resort to wh-questions in Cape Verdean Creole (CVC) to illustrate a further syntactic aspect of these ...
Nélia Alexandre
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