Move Wh in a Language Without Wh Movement

Huang, Chu‐Ren

doi:10.1515/tlir.1982.1.4.369

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“…If T • agrees with Participant, it also attracts Participant to its specifier position. As Participant is the specifier of the subject this leads to a violation of the subject island condition and/or the left-branch condition (Ross 1967;Huang 1982). 20 The difference between the derivation in (39) with C • as Probe and the one in (44) with T • as Probe can now be described as follows.…”

Section: Verbal Agreement In Hellendoorn Dutchmentioning

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The distribution of phi-features in pronouns

Koppen

2011

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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This paper focuses on the question which phi-features are associated with pronouns and how these features are distributed over their internal structure. I argue that pronouns contain Participant and Individuation features (Harley and Ritter 2002). The Participant features and the Individuation features are merged as discrete sets of features which can be targeted for syntactic operations like Agree independently from the other phi-features associated with pronouns. These feature sets are merged and end up on the maximal projection of the pronoun as one feature bundle.The core data of this paper are constituted by Complementizer Agreement (CA) in Dutch dialects (cf. Haegeman 1992;Zwart 1993). In (the mostly West-Germanic) dialects with CA, the subject of an embedded clause agrees with both the finite verb, and with the complementizer introducing the embedded clause. I show that there are two types of CA dialects. In the first type, the complementizer and the finite verb have the same ending. In the second type, the so-called Double Agreement (DA) dialects, however, the complementizer and the finite verb do not have the same affix. What has gone unnoticed in the literature until now is that these two types of CA dialects can be distinguished on the basis of two more properties: CA in the DA dialects is sensitive to (i) extraction of the embedded subject pronoun to a higher clause and (ii) modification of the subject pronoun by a focus particle. I argue that the differences between these two types of CA can be explained if C does not target the same Goal in these dialects. In the DA dialects CA is the result of a Probe agreeing with the Participant features inside the pronominal structure, whereas CA in the other dialects reflects agreement with the top node of this pronominal structure.

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Section: Verbal Agreement In Hellendoorn Dutchmentioning

confidence: 99%

The distribution of phi-features in pronouns

Koppen

2011

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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“…English, along with Spanish and Italian, belong to the movement languages, in which WH-words invariably occur at the sentence-initial position. (Huang 1982)This can be illustrated in (11) The WH-word what originally occupies complement position after the verb, and then moves to the initial position of the sentence. It can be seen that English WH-questions involve fronting of WH-words, and the movement of WH-words in English is called WH-movement.…”

Section: B Wh-movement In Englishmentioning

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“…There is one major account to explain the typological differences between Chinese and English WH-questions, proposed by Huang (1982 …”

Section: Differences Between English and Chinese Wh-questionsmentioning

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A Study on the Acquisition of English WH-question by Chinese Beginning Learners

Zhang

2016

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Abstract-The study mainly adopted the quantitative approach. The participants were 30 pupils in 6 th Grade Primary School. The WH-questions were collected from a spoken elicitation test-participants were required to produce WH-questions based on specially designed pictures. All audio files obtained were converted into text file in order to better understand the acquisition of the simple English WH-questions by Chinese English beginning learners. The results showed various errors exist in the process of acquiring English WH-questions by Chinese English beginning learners and the causes behind these errors is mainly native language negative transfer, which has both theoretical and pedagogical implications.Index Terms-English WH-questions acquisition, contrastive analysis between English and Chinese WH-questions, error analysis, negative transfer

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“…A possible response would be that Xixi didn't exercise and ate a lot of junk food. Assuming an LF movement approach to WH in situ languages such as Mandarin (Huang 1982), the fact that the WH can scope over just the lower clause suggests that if Mandarin has raising, those clauses are structurally larger than their English counterparts. Li (1990) argues that there are no ECM verbs in Mandarin like the English verb 'believe.'…”

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The typology of Mandarin infinitives

2016

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Abstract. There has been a long-standing debate in the literature about whether Mandarin has infinitival clauses. Since there is no verbal morphology to distinguish finite and nonfinite clauses, this is an open question. Researchers have used diagnostics such as the availability of an overt embedded subject and the interpretation of aspect markers to argue both for and against the presence of infinitival clauses in Mandarin. Using some of these diagnostics, in addition to the availability of partial control interpretations, Grano (2012Grano ( /2015 argues that the distinction between types of clauses in Mandarin is not based on finiteness, but rather based on whether there is restructuring: some complement clauses are vPs, while others are CPs. We provide new data based on the distribution and interpretation of the reflexive ziji, which suggests that there is a finite/nonfinite distinction. We argue for the existence of nonfinite control complements in Mandarin. Further, we evaluate the diagnostics used by previous researchers and illustrate that some of them are not reliable indicators of finiteness or of clause size.

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Move Wh in a Language Without Wh Movement

Cited by 215 publications

References 2 publications

The distribution of phi-features in pronouns

The distribution of phi-features in pronouns

A Study on the Acquisition of English WH-question by Chinese Beginning Learners

The typology of Mandarin infinitives

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