Wh-fronting and the left periphery in Mandarin

On Wh-Fronting in Russian

Boškovi (1997a), (1997b), (in press a), (in press b) showed that Superiority effects (cf. Chomsky (1973)) may be taken as a diagnostic for wh-movement in multiple whquestions, that is, movement of a wh-phrase to Spec-CP, if one adopts the minimalist framework of Chomsky (1995b). In this framework, movement is subject to derivational economy, realized in conditions such as Minimal Link (MLC). In...

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Wh-Fronting in a two-probe system

Prior work on wh-movement has distinguished among several types of wh-fronting languages that permit distinct patterns of overt and covert movement, instantiated for example by the Slavic languages, English, and German. This paper extends the cross-linguistic typology of multiple questions by arguing that Hebrew instantiates a new kind of wh-fronting language, unlike any that are discussed in t...

Low IP area and left periphery in Mandarin Chinese

Belletti’s proposal (2003) that the architecture of the domain below IP and above vP parallels that of the clause-external left periphery is applied to Mandarin Chinese. Though the hierarchy obtained, ‘CP (force) > TopicP > ‘even’ FocusP > IP > inner TopicP > ‘even’ FocusP > vP’ confirms the parallelism between CP and the low IP area, it corresponds only partially to the hierarchy postulated by...

Wh - questions , V 2 , and the Left Periphery of Three Norwegian Dialect types

In this paper, we present data from three Norwegian dialect types, NOR-1, NOR-2 and NOR-3, which differ with respect to the verb second (V2) requirement in wh-questions: NOR-1 (represented by Standard Norwegian) requires V2 in all main clauses, NOR-3 (represented by the Nordmøre dialect) lacks this requirement in all wh-questions, while NOR-2 (represented by the Tromsø dialect) lacks the requir...