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English wh&wh Constructions: Conjoin and Move
David Potter and Michael Frazier
355-365 (complete paper or proceedings contents)

Abstract

This paper presents a novel analysis of the English conjoined wh-word construction (wh&wh constructions; What and when did John eat?). Recent proposals for the analysis of wh&wh constructions treat the construction as the result of one of a number of possible multidominant configurations (Gračanin-Yuksek 2007, Citko & Gračanin-Yuksek 2013, Citko 2013) or of asymmetrical wh-movement (Larson 2012). Instead, this paper argues that English wh&wh constructions are mono-clausal structures, with both wh-phrases merged into a single coordinate structure and subsequently moved together as a constituent to the left periphery. This analysis accounts for a number of properties left unexplained by previous analyses.

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Proceedings of the 38th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
edited by Rachel Soo, Una Y. Chow, and Sander Nederveen
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