Successive cyclicity as residual wh-scope marking

Reconsidering the Indirect Dependency Approach to Wh-Scope Marking

“…What is specific to this version of the IDA is the assumption that (the trace of) the wh-scope marker and CP 2 form a constituent, XP, which functions as the complement of the superordinate verb. This assumption is well supported by syntactic evidence pertaining to case and movement theory (see also Stepanov and Stateva 2006). Besides this evidence, there are other arguments in favor of the revised IDA syntax.…”

“…So far, there has not been proposed a method for the in-situ interpretation of wh-scope markers for Dayal's IDA. Furthermore, it seems that the original IDA does not make it possible to give a compositional interpretation to incorporated wh-scope markers (see Stepanov and Stateva 2006).…”

Partial Wh-Movement and Wh-Copying in Dutch: Evidence for an Indirect Dependency Approach

“…Other proponents of the IDA assume the scope marker is an expletive generated in object position, which is replaced by the embedded CP at LF (cf. Fanselow & Mahajan, 2000;Herburger, 1994;Horvath, 2000;Mahajan, 2000;Sternefeld, 2002;Stepanov & Stateva, 2006). A third type of IDA is proposed in Felser (2001), who argues that the scope marker is not an expletive subject to replacement, but that it is a true argument that is theta-licensed by the matrix verb.…”

Czech modal existential wh-constructions as vP-level free relatives

“…2 Argument 3: Selection by a CP-correlative. Embedded CPs in many Slavic languages can be introduced by a demonstrative element to 'that' , which Stepanov & Stateva (2006) call CP-correlative and analyze as a D-head, selecting the embedded CP. The resulting structure, a DP, is in turn selected by the matrix verb.…”

“…3 Czech (as opposed to Russian, cf. Stepanov & Stateva 2006) imposes hardly any restrictions on the presence of this to -it can select any kind of embedded CP (CPs selected by factive, non-factive verbs, as well as prepositions, wh-CPs or declarative CPs, infinitival or finite CPs, etc. ), which makes it a suitable test for the CP-hood of clauses.…”