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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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Involvement of the anterior insula and frontal operculum during wh-question comprehension of wh-in-situ Korean language. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
In this research, we employed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine the neurological basis for understanding wh-questions in wh-in-situ languages such as Korean, where wh-elements maintain their original positions instead of moving ...
Haeil Park, Jiseon Baik, Hae-Jeong Park
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Processing long-distance wh-dependency in the Kyengsang dialect of Korean: an ERP study [PDF]

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Kyengsang Dialect Korean (KDK) is a wh-in-situ language that morphologically distinguishes content (or wh-) and polar questions via sentence-final question particles (QPs).
Wonil Chung, Keonwoo Koo
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French wh in-situ

Isogloss
This paper investigates the acceptability of wh in-situ expressions in embedded contexts in French. We report on two experiments that tested the acceptability of wh in-situ and ex-situ in embedded clauses of biclausal direct wh-questions and in indirect
Lena Baunaz, Giuliano Bocci, Ur Shlonsky
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The periphery of vP in the theory of wh-in situ

Glossa, 2021
This article outlines an implementation of Cable’s (2010) Grammar of Q that considers the role played by the periphery of vP, hitherto unexplored in this framework. Empirically, I offer a new example, in a new language family, of a known manifestation of
Caterina Bonan
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Acquiring Syntactic Variability: The Production of Wh-Questions in Children and Adults Speaking Akan

Frontiers in Communication, 2021
This paper investigates the predictions of the Derivational Complexity Hypothesis by studying the acquisition of wh-questions in 4- and 5-year-old Akan-speaking children in an experimental approach using an elicited production and an elicited imitation ...
Paul Okyere Omane, Barbara Höhle
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Activation levels

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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