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Che libro à-tu ledest? 'what book have-you read' "What book did you read?" *A'-tu ledest che libro? (2) Quanti libri à-tu ledest? 'how many books have-you read' "How many books did you read?" *A'-tu ledest quanti libri? Bare wh-phrases, on the contrary, appear in sentence-internal position; cf. (3), (4): (3) a. À-tu incontrà chi? 'have-you met who' "Who did you meet?" b. *Chi à-tu incontrà? (4) a. Sié-o stadi andé? 'are-you been where' "Where have you been?" b. *Andé sié-o stadi? This paradigm includes che 'what': (5) a. A'-lo magnà che? 'has-he eaten what' "What did he eat?" b. *Che à-lo magnà? The wh-phrase cossa 'what' alternates, in Bellunese, freely with che, but behaves as a nonbare element, a property explainable on diachronic grounds (see Munaro (1999, 25ff.): (6) a. Cossa à-lo magnà? 'what has-he eaten' b. *A'-lo magnà cossa? Abstracting away from certain (apparently) slightly more complex cases, standard interrogatives in Bellunese distribute their bare vs. nonbare whphrases in opposite ways; bare wh-phrases appear, strikingly, in sentence internal position-"in-situ". Munaro, Poletto and Pollock (2002) analyze Bellunese wh-in-situ structures as follows. First, they motivate-for Bellunese as for other Romance languages-a Rizzi-style highly articulated relevant left periphery, namely, (7) (= their (12)): 4

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