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Title: | Focus intervention effects in Mandarin multiple wh-questions | Authors: | Li, H Cheung, CCH |
Issue Date: | Nov-2015 | Source: | Journal of East Asian linguistics, Nov. 2015, v. 24, no. 4, p. 361-382 | Abstract: | In this paper, we investigate focus intervention effects in Mandarin multiple wh-questions, showing that such effects arise only if a focus particle and its focus associate intervene between the interrogative complementizer C[Q] and one or more in-situ wh-phrases. We further show that focus intervention effects are not observed when a focus particle takes all the in-situ wh-phrases in its c-command domain as its focus associates. Adopting Pesetsky and Torrego's (in: Karimi et al. (eds.) Phrasal and clausal architecture: Syntactic derivation and interpretation, in honor of Joseph E. Emonds, 2007) feature-sharing view of Agree, we propose that the dependency between C[Q] and an in-situ wh-phrase can be reduced to an Agree relation. In addition, adopting Rizzi’s (in: Belletti (ed.), Structures and beyond: The cartography of syntactic structures, 2004) refined version of Relativized Minimality, we propose that focus intervention effects are induced by the presence of a Focus Phrase that prohibits C[Q] from establishing proper dependencies with the in-situ wh-phrases. | Keywords: | Association with focus Feature-sharing view of Agree Focus intervention effects Mandarin Multiple wh-questions Relativized minimality |
Publisher: | Springer | Journal: | Journal of East Asian linguistics | ISSN: | 0925-8558 | EISSN: | 1572-8560 | DOI: | 10.1007/s10831-015-9134-1 | Rights: | © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015 The following publication Li, H., & Cheung, C. C. H. (2015). Focus intervention effects in Mandarin multiple wh-questions. Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 24(4), 361-382 is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10831-015-9134-1. The final publication is available at link.springer.com |
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