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Slovenian questions with short wh-movement and the low periphery [PDF]
Slovenski Jezik - Slovene Linguistic Studies, 2019 In this paper I establish multiple wh-questions with short wh-movement, i.e. questions in which at least one wh-phrase moves to the clause initial position while the rest move to some clause internal position, following the subject, as a separate type of
Petra Mišmaš
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Pied-piping in wh-questions:What do children say about it? [PDF]
, 2011 Errors/non-target responses characterizing sub-extraction of a wh-phrase from complex DPs in child speech are found in first language acquisition studies (van Kampen 1997 among others) and have provided the basis for arguing the complexity of question ...
Pavlou, Natallia
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Unifying Optional Wh-movement [PDF]
, 2010 This thesis puts forward a theory that attempts to unify optional wh-movement within the Minimalist framework. Optionality is generally problematic for a theory ofMinimalist syntax: movement, when motivated, must occur.
Yeo, Weichiang Norman
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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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Wh-questions in agrammatism: a movement deficit? [PDF]
, 2005 Agrammatic Broca patients suffer from a language deficit related to syntactic movement. These patients have difficulties producing and comprehending sentences derived through syntactic movement.
van der Meulen, Ineke +2 more
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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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Wh-Movement in Central Kurdish: A Cross-linguistic Study
Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences, 2019 This paper looks into wh-movement in Central Kurdish ( henceforth CK) and its position with relation to the available parameters by comparing it with some other languages. The data of the study is collected based on the fact that the author is the native
Twana Saadi Hamid
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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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