On Wh-Fronting in Russian
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چکیده
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 the present work I argue that if Boškovi is correct then wh-movement in the traditional sense does not take place in Russian, a Slavic language where all wh-words must be fronted in overt syntax. I argue, instead, that wh-words in Russian are fronted for the reasons of checking the focus feature, to a position immediately below C , elaborating on the proposal by Stjepanovi (1995) for 0
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