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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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Slovenian questions with short wh-movement and the low periphery
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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Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of AmericaIn this study, I provide novel arguments for Fox and Lasnik’s (F&L) (2003) analysis of sluicing. F&L assume that in sluicing constructions, wh-movement can proceed either locally or non-locally, and whether an occurrence of wh-movement is ruled out or not depends on whether it creates a dependency that is required to satisfy Parallelism.
Ohtaka, Akane
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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, I. +2 more
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Neural Connectivity in Syntactic Movement Processing
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2019 Linguistic theory suggests non-canonical sentences subvert the dominant agent-verb-theme order in English via displacement of sentence constituents to argument (NP-movement) or non-argument positions (wh-movement).
Eduardo Europa +7 more
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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- movement in child english [PDF]
, 2015 This dissertation deals with wh- movement and question formation, providing an empirical analysis of child data belonging to English L1 speakers from CHILDES in an attempt to study the acquisition of this syntactic phenomenon. The data are analyzed in terms of preference and complexity of wh- type and function of the wh- element, the complexity ...
Arranz Gozalo, Cristina
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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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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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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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