Coordinated Multiple Wh-questions in Wh-in-situ Languages: A Mono-Clausal Movement Analysis

• 발행기관: 한국생성문법학회
• 저자명: Yeun-Jin Jung
• 간행물 정보: 『생성문법연구』제28권 제1호, 91~125쪽, 전체 35쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2018.02.28

영문 초록

Coordinated Multiple Wh-questions (CMWHs) in wh-in situ languages have received scant attention in the literature. Citko and Gracanin-Yuksek (2013) propose that UG allows for three types of structures for CMWHs: a mono-clausal structure and two bi-clausal structures of bulk-sharing and non-bulk sharing. Kasai (2016) puts forth a bi-clausal backward ellipsis analysis, based on Japanese. In this paper, I argue that neither Citko and Gracanin-Yuksek’s (2013) typology nor Kasai’s (2016) ellipsis analysis can properly accommodate the properties of CMWHs in wh-in situ languages. I propose alternatively, based on Korean, that CMWHs in languages without wh-movement are constructed via a sideward movement of wh-phrases in a mono-clausal structure, adopting Zhang (2007), which is triggered by a special coordinating head & 0 , and then the conjoined wh-complex remerges to a typical scrambling site already available in the language: SpecvP or SpecTP. This paper thus teases out the interwoven properties of wh-questions and scrambling, and suggests that CMWHs in wh-in situ languages are simply an instantiation of scrambling of which focus meaning is interpreted through its ‘labeled’ projection at CI (Chomsky 2013).

목차

1. Introduction

2. Core Properties of Coordinated Multiple Wh-questions

3. Previous Analyses

4. The Proposal: A Mono-Clausal Movement Analysis

5. Conclusion

키워드

coordinated wh-questions sideward movement wh-in-situ language wh-movement backwards ellipsis scrambling labeling