2001
DOI: 10.1162/002438901554595
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Multiple Wh-Fronting

Abstract: This article argues that overt multiple wh-fronting in languages like Bulgarian consists of moving a single wh-cluster to [Spec, CP]. The formation of wh-clusters is motivated by the assumption that wh-elements can act as landing sites for wh-movement due to morphological properties of wh-words. I further argue that languages such as Japanese constitute covert instances of this process of wh-cluster formation, accounting for intricate constraints on multiple wh-questions such as the so-called ''additional-wh e… Show more

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“…To sum up, the CH enables us to provide a uniform account of multiple wh-constructions in Bulgarian and Japanese. 6 6 Further evidence for this analysis of multiple wh-constructions in Japanese is discussed by Sohn (1994), Takahashi (1994, and Grewendorf andSabel (1996:49-63, 1999:56-60).…”
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“…To sum up, the CH enables us to provide a uniform account of multiple wh-constructions in Bulgarian and Japanese. 6 6 Further evidence for this analysis of multiple wh-constructions in Japanese is discussed by Sohn (1994), Takahashi (1994, and Grewendorf andSabel (1996:49-63, 1999:56-60).…”
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“…The derivation of (10a) and (11a) is depicted in (12) (XP 2 ‫ס‬ kogo 'whom' in (10a) and kak 'how' in (11a)). As (12) shows, the wh-cluster is formed before wh-movement to [Spec, CP] Kraskow 1990, Saito 1992, Abe 1993a,b, Ackema and Neeleman 1998, Grewendorf and Sabel 1996, Grewendorf 2001. Examples such as (9a) may plausibly be derived by the CH, that is, by assuming that the [‫ם‬wh] feature of koj 'who' that is attracted by the [‫ם‬wh] feature in C 0 attracts the [‫ם‬wh] feature of kȗde 'where' (the same holds for multiple wh-constructions in Romanian and Japanese; see below).…”
Section: Xp-movement and The Cluster Hypothesismentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For example, wh-constructions were analysed in terms of an Agree-relation between an uninterpretable [uQ]-feature of C (the Probe) and the interpretable [iQ]-feature of a wh-phrase (the Goal); wh-phrases were assumed to be activated by having uninterpretable wh-features ([uwh]), and overt wh-movement was triggered by an EPP-feature of C that would attract the wh-phrase to [Spec, C] (see e.g. Chomsky 2000;Grewendorf 2001). However, in later work, Chomsky (2007Chomsky ( , 2008 […].…”
Section: Movement As Attractionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…20 The prediction is that the PIC 3 should give rise to superiority effects 18 The basic idea can already be found in the analysis of the lack of weak crossover effects in German that is developed in Grewendorf (1988, 320). Other accounts of the lack of superiority effects in German include Haider (1983), Noonan (1988), Bayer (1990), Haider (1993), Müller (1995), Richards (2001), Kim and Sternefeld (1997), Haider (2000), Pesetsky (2000), and Grewendorf (2001). Fanselow (1991), Wiltschko (1997), Grohmann (1998), andFeatherston (2001) suggest re-evaluations of the empirical evidence.…”
Section: The Lack Of Superiority Effects In Germanmentioning
confidence: 99%