From northern Italian to Asian wh-in situ: A theory of low focus movement

The mainstream literature on the Romance dialects of northern Italy has explained the morphosyntax of clause-internal wh-elements in answer-seeking interrogatives as either the result of interrogative movement into the lower portion of the high left periphery (Munaro et al. 2001, Poletto & Poll...

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Autor principal:	Caterina Bonan
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Publicado:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2021
Materias:	wh-movement focus Q-particles wh-in situ peripheries language change Romanic languages PC1-5498 Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:9528317104dd4607a207a9060cedcb102021-11-25T11:16:28ZFrom northern Italian to Asian wh-in situ: A theory of low focus movement2385-4138https://doaj.org/article/9528317104dd4607a207a9060cedcb102021-03-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.es/isogloss/isogloss/article/view/108https://doaj.org/toc/2385-4138 The mainstream literature on the Romance dialects of northern Italy has explained the morphosyntax of clause-internal wh-elements in answer-seeking interrogatives as either the result of interrogative movement into the lower portion of the high left periphery (Munaro et al. 2001, Poletto & Pollock 2015, a.o.), or as a canonical instance of scope construal (Manzini & Savoia 2005;2011). New empirical evidence from Romance suggests that there is more at stake in the computation of wh-interrogatives than we used to think, and that neither of the existing approaches to northern Italian ‘wh-in situ’ can be maintained. Here, I argue that northern Italian dialects and Asian languages are, at least in this respect, more similar than we originally thought, and then I offer a new, derivationally economic and cross-linguistically supported understanding of the morphosyntax of northern Italian wh-in situ: the theory of wh-to-foc. Accordingly, all cross-linguistic core properties of this phenomenon can be attributed to different combinations of the setting of universal micro-parameters related to the interrogative movement of wh-elements. Caterina BonanUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelonaarticlewh-movementfocusQ-particleswh-in situperipherieslanguage changeRomanic languagesPC1-5498Philology. LinguisticsP1-1091ENIsogloss, Vol 7 (2021)
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description	The mainstream literature on the Romance dialects of northern Italy has explained the morphosyntax of clause-internal wh-elements in answer-seeking interrogatives as either the result of interrogative movement into the lower portion of the high left periphery (Munaro et al. 2001, Poletto & Pollock 2015, a.o.), or as a canonical instance of scope construal (Manzini & Savoia 2005;2011). New empirical evidence from Romance suggests that there is more at stake in the computation of wh-interrogatives than we used to think, and that neither of the existing approaches to northern Italian ‘wh-in situ’ can be maintained. Here, I argue that northern Italian dialects and Asian languages are, at least in this respect, more similar than we originally thought, and then I offer a new, derivationally economic and cross-linguistically supported understanding of the morphosyntax of northern Italian wh-in situ: the theory of wh-to-foc. Accordingly, all cross-linguistic core properties of this phenomenon can be attributed to different combinations of the setting of universal micro-parameters related to the interrogative movement of wh-elements.
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title	From northern Italian to Asian wh-in situ: A theory of low focus movement
title_short	From northern Italian to Asian wh-in situ: A theory of low focus movement
title_full	From northern Italian to Asian wh-in situ: A theory of low focus movement
title_fullStr	From northern Italian to Asian wh-in situ: A theory of low focus movement
title_full_unstemmed	From northern Italian to Asian wh-in situ: A theory of low focus movement
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publisher	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
publishDate	2021
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From northern Italian to Asian wh-in situ: A theory of low focus movement

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