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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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"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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Quirks of subject (non-)extraction in Igbo

Glossa, 2019
In this paper we present new data on a subject/non-subject extraction asymmetry in Igbo constituent questions. We provide evidence that the superficially morphological phenomenon reflects a deeper syntactic asymmetry: Unlike wh-non-subjects, wh-subjects ...
Doreen Georgi, Mary Amaechi
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Undoing Wh-Movement: On the Need for Multiple Copies

Philosophies, 2021
This contribution presents an outline of the current scholarly discussion of reconstruction with wh-movement, focussing on the Lebeaux Effect (LE) and wider aspects of reconstruction with wh-movement. It presents empirical problems for both the proposals
Jacek Witkoś
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Apparent wh-in-situ in Bellunese: Microparametric variation in the locus of subject clitic inversion

Glossa, 2020
The paper investigates wh-in-situ in Lamonat and Sovramontino, two understudied varieties of the Bellunese super-dialect area (Munaro 1998; 1999; Munaro et al. 2001; Poletto & Pollock 2004; 2009; 2015), from a new perspective, whereby patterns of non-
Simone De Cia
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Agreeing and Moving across Traces: On Why Lower Copies May Be Transparent or Opaque

Philosophies, 2021
Within Minimalism, traces are often taken to be transparent for agreement and movement across them, which raises the question of how this could be properly accounted for within the copy theory of movement.
Jairo Nunes
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Quoi-sluices in French

Glossa, 2022
Sluicing has traditionally been analyzed as an operation involving wh-movement and deletion (Merchant 2001). French is a language that has both fronted and wh-in situ strategies; on the surface, however, it seems that French sluices do not involve (overt)
Megan Gotowski
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Thinking on WH-Movement [PDF]

, 2016
Andrew Radford’s Syntax: A Minimalist Introduction illustrates the features of wh-movement in English, taking that wh-movement is “a type of operator movement, and syntactic units may move from their initial position to another position in the sentence ...
PENG, Xiamei
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SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION OF WH-MOVEMENT BY MACEDONIAN LEARNERS OF ENGLISH [PDF]

Studii de gramatică contrastivă, 2013
The overall aim of this paper is to test the strong predictions of the Full Transfer/Full Access Hypothesis of second language acquisition. The general question addressed by the study is whether there is full transfer from the first language (L1) when it
Sonja KITANOVSKA-KIMOVSKA
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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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