In this work we examine the distribution of wh-in-situ and short (i.e., clause internal) wh-doubling in Northern Italian dialects with purpose showing that are not unitary phenomena, since they subject to different distributional properties across dialects. We show cannot be reduced a single analysis but rather corresponds family phenomena which have common basic procedure feature doubling, wit...

Children are known to have problems in understanding Wh-movement constructions in which the object moves across an overt subject (as is the case in object-relatives, Wh-object questions, and topicalization). To test whether crossing dependencies are also problematic when no Wh-movement is involved and whether dependencies in which the subject crosses an object are also difficult, we test a cons...

In German, complex wh-interrogatives can optionally be formed by inserting the 3 person neuter wh-pronoun was in the matrix (Spec,CP) position, instead of long-distance wh-raising. It is generally assumed that 'expletive' was serves as a placeholder for a contentful whexpression lower down in the sentence, which substitutes for it at the level of semantic interpretation. It can be shown, howeve...

We study Weyl-Heisenberg (=Gabor) expansions for either L2(IR ) or a subspace of it. These are expansions in terms of the spanning set X = (EM φ : k ∈ K, l ∈ L,φ ∈ Φ), where K and L are some discrete lattices in IR, Φ ⊂ L2(IR ) is finite, E is the translation operator, and M is the modulation operator. Such sets X are known as WH systems. The analysis of the “basis” properties of WH systems (e....

Across many languages, multiple sluicing obeys a clausemate constraint. This can be understood on the empirically well-supported assumption that covert phrasal wh-movement is clause-bounded and subject to Superiority. We provide independent evidence for syntactic structure at ellipsis site locality constraints movement operations within site. The fact distribution of substantially narrower than...

Abstract We report an experiment addressing the comprehension of LIS interrogatives in three adult populations with different times exposure to sign language: native signers, early and late signers. investigate whether delayed language affects there is advantage for subject dependencies over object dependencies, as systematically reported spoken languages. The answer first question positive: ev...

This study explored Wh question comprehension in Hebrew-speaking children with syntactic SLI (S-SLI), comparing which and who questions and subject and object questions. The participants were 14 Hebrew-speaking children with S-SLI aged 9;3-12;0, and the control group included 25 typically developing children aged 9;1-10;0. The study used two binary picture selection tasks. The results indicated...

Pancheva (2009) argues that phrasal comparatives in Polish exhibit a subject-island effect. She proposes an account of the island effect as a combination of several factors: than has a small clause complement in phrasal comparatives; wh-movement turns the than-clause into a degree predicate; wh-movement of the vP subject is prohibited by an anti-locality constraint; sub-extraction of the vP sub...

This study explored Wh question comprehension in Hebrew-speaking children with syntactic SLI (SySLI), comparing which and who questions and subject and object questions. The participants were 14 Hebrew-speaking children with SySLI aged 9;312;0, and the control group included 25 typically-developing children aged 9;1-10;0. The study used two binary picture selection tasks. The results indicated ...

This study explored Wh question comprehension in Hebrew-speaking children with syntactic SLI (S-SLI), comparing which and who questions and subject and object questions. The participants were 14 Hebrew-speaking children with S-SLI aged 9;3-12;0, and the control group included 25 typically developing children aged 9;1-10;0. The study used two binary picture selection tasks. The results indicated...