In this article, the so-called wh-relative clause construction is investigated. The German wh-relative clauses are syntactically relevant as they show both, root clause and subordinate clause properties. They matter semantically because they are introduced by a wh-anaphor that has to be resolved by an appropriate abstract entity of the matrix clause. Additionally, the wh-relative clause constru...

The use of two markers of prosodic finality in French, vowel lengthening and high vowel breathiness/devoicing, were compared among statements and questions of various types (echo-questions, Wh-questions, questions with inverted subject and verb). The comparison focuses on the relation between sentence-final intonation and the other markers of finality. The intonation pattern of statements and W...

Though there is a huge amount of the so-called epistemic logics that deal with propositional attitudes, i.e., sentences form “a knows P”, their ‘wh-cousins’ who what P is”, which Ps are Qs”, etc., have been, to best my knowledge, almost neglected. A similar disproportion can be observed between analysis Yes-No questions, has been under scrutiny many erotetic logics, and Wh-questions dealt just ...

In this article, the so-called wh-relative clause construction is investigated. The German wh-relative clauses are syntactically relevant as they show both, root clause and subordinate clause properties. They matter semantically because they are introduced by a wh-anaphor that has to be resolved by an appropriate abstract entity of the matrix clause. Additionally, the wh-relative clause constru...

In this article, we are concerned with the syntactic structure of questions in Marshallese. We explore both whand polar questions in turn: Section 2 is dedicated to wh-questions, where, applying diagnostics suggested by Adger and Ramchand (2005, henceforth AR), we conclude that a base generation analysis is more empirically adequate for Marshallese than a movement account. In Section 3 we discu...

In wh-questions that form a syntactic dependency between the fronted wh-phrase and its thematic position, acceptability is severely degraded when the dependency crosses another wh-phrase. It is well known that the acceptability degradation in wh-island violation ameliorates in certain contexts, but the source of this variation remains poorly understood. In the syntax literature, an influential ...