In:Romance Interrogative Syntax: Formal and typological dimensions of variation
Caterina Bonan
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 266] 2021
► pp. 91–129
Chapter 3
Wh-to-Foc is focus-driven
Published online: 17 March 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.266.c3
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.266.c3
Article outline
- Organisation of this chapter
- 3.1A typologically interesting type between full moving and in situ
languages
- 3.1.1Malayalam
- 3.1.2Bangla and Hindi-Urdu
- 3.1.3Bantu languages
- 3.1.4Greek (multiple wh-questions)
- 3.1.5Persian
- 3.2The short movement of clause-internal wh-elements is
focus-movement
- 3.2.1
Kahnemuyipour’s (2001) work on
Persian focus-movement
- 3.2.1.1Arguments in favour of focus movement
- 3.2.1.2Arguments in favour of movement to specvp
- 3.2.2The role of [foc] in Trevisan fake wh-in situ
- 3.2.2.1The parallelism between contrastive focus and clause-internally moved wh-elements
- 3.2.2.2Trevisan wh-in situ and the roles of [foc], [q], and [wh]
- 3.2.1
Kahnemuyipour’s (2001) work on
Persian focus-movement
- 3.3Intermediate conclusions
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