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Typology of multiple questions
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| Author: | Ralf Vogel |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email |
| Query: |
Dear co-linguists, I'm interested in the typology of the syntax of questions and would be very happy, if anybody could help me in answering the following question: The syntax of interrogative clauses varies in several ways among languages. First, there are languages that have wh-movement, like Engish, and languages that don't have it, like Korean (for ease of reading, I'm only giving glosses): 1 a English: What did John eat _? b Korean: John what ate? Second, many languages can have multiple wh-elements within one clause, but there are also some that cannot, Italian is supposed to be such a language. However, Italian is a wh-movement language. I haven't found yet information abou *wh-in-situ languages that cannot form multiple questions*, however: 2 a English: What did you do _ where? b Italian: *What did you _ where? 3 a Korean: you what where did? b ??????: *you what where did? Does anybody know a language like 3b, i.e., a wh-in-situ language that has no multiple questions? I would also be very happy about hints to work dealing with this question. I will post a summary of the answers to the list, if there are any interesting results. Thanks in advance. Dr. Ralf Vogel mailto:rvogel@ling.uni-potsdam.de Institute of Linguistics University of Potsdam http://ling.uni-potsdam.de/~rvogel |
