In:Romance Interrogative Syntax: Formal and typological dimensions of variation
Caterina Bonan
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 266] 2021
► pp. 55–90
Chapter 2On short movement of clause-internal wh-elements
Wh-to-Foc
Published online: 17 March 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.266.c2
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.266.c2
Article outline
- Organisation of this chapter
- 2.1Characterising Wh-to-Foc
- 2.1.1Free subject inversion and the pro-drop parameter
- 2.1.2Are clause-internal wh-elements moved?
- 2.1.3Which spec is targeted by clause-internally moved wh-elements?
- 2.2Checking C in the presence of Wh-to-Foc: Preliminary
investigation
- 2.2.1On [wh]- and [q]-features
- 2.2.2On bipartite wh-words
- 2.2.2.1On the illegitimacy of an extension of interrogative ClPs to all Northern Italian dialects
- 2.2.3The grammar of Q and consequences for optional wh-in situ
- 2.2.3.1 Cable’s (2010) ‘Grammar of Q’
- 2.2.3.2Extending the theory of Q to Trevisan wh-fronting
- 2.2.3.3Legitimacy of sub-extraction out of frozen wh-elements
- 2.3Intermediate remarks
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