Multiple Wh-Fronting; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; List of contributors; Introduction; Symmetries and asymmetries in multiple checking; On wh-islands and obligatory wh-movement contexts in South Slavic; On the nature of multiple fronting in Yiddish; On the morphosyntax of wh-movement; German is a multiple wh-fronting language!; Deriving Anti-Superiority effects; Conjoined questions in Hungarian; Persian wh-riddles; Non-wh-fronting in Basque; Malagasy as an optional multiple wh-fronting language.
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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 contributions to this volume all explore this option from a number of perspectives. Topics covered include finer investigations of the "classic" multiple Wh-fronting languages (such as the South Slavic languages Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian), extensions to less well studied languages (Basque, Malagasy, Persian, Yiddish), explorations for languages that don't obviously fall into this category (German, Hungarian), peripheral effects (optionality o.
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Title
Multiple Wh-fronting.
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9789027227874
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Extraction (Linguistics)
Extraction (grammatica)
Extraction (Linguistics)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Linguistics-- Syntax.