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Multiple Wh-Fronting
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: Cedric Boeckx
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-08-21 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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Typological differences in the formation of multiple Wh-questions are well-known. One option is fronting all Wh-phrases to the sentence periphery. The contribut
Multiple Wh-fronting
Language: en
Pages: 310
Authors: Cedric Boeckx
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-01-01 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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Typological differences in the formation of multiple "Wh"-questions are well-known. One option is fronting all "Wh"-phrases to the sentence periphery. The contr
Wh-Movement and the Theory of Feature-Checking
Language: en
Pages: 258
Authors: Andrew Simpson
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-06-16 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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Wh-movement and the theory of feature-checking argues that cross-linguistic variation in wh-constructions reduces to the availability of different lexical insta
The Copy Theory of Movement
Language: en
Pages: 400
Authors: Norbert Corver
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-06-27 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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This volume brings together papers which address issues regarding the copy theory of movement. According to this theory, a trace is a copy of the moved element
On the Typology of Wh-questions
Language: en
Pages: 220
Authors: Lisa Lai Shen Cheng
Categories: Grammar, Comparative and general
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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Offers an explanation for a long-standing question in the typological distinction among languages with respect to formation of interrogatives which use question