Wh-dependencies in Romanian and TAG

The aim of this paper is to analyse the wh movement for Romanian in TAG formalisrn. Romanian shares free extractibility from tensed clauses with its Rornance sister languages and it has borrowed multiple wh-fronting from the slavic languages. These features of Rornanian are quoted by Kroch (1989) frorn Comorovsky (1986) , where he justifies the analysis of extractions in TAG. This formalism allows a correlation between the absence of wh-islands and the possibility of multiple wh movement. But the facts of the Romanian language are more complex .We consider here several phenornena like simple questions, unbounded dependencies, wh-islands, multiple wh movement . Because of order between the free wh-words for the multiple wh-movement , a complete analysis is not possible with TAG. TAG derivation trees do not provide a good ' representation of the dependencies between the words of the sentence, i.e„ of the predicate argument and modification structure. Also, the derivation structures of MCTAG (Joshi,1987) cannot be given a linguistically meaningful interpretation (Section 3). We show here that an analysis is possible with DTG formalism (Vijay-Shanker, D. Weir, 0. Rambow,1995) that resolve these problems with the use of a single operation -that we call subsertion -for handling all complementation.