説明
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Focusing initially on the first question and on the English case, we assume that the required adjacency between wh- and I is to be expressed in terms of Chomsky’s (1986) approach to the structure of clauses: in main questions, I-to-C movement must apply, and create a Spec-head configuration involving the wh-element and the inflected verb. Subject-auxiliary inversion can thus be reduced to a special case of Verb Second (as in den Besten 1983), in turn a particular instance of head-to-head movement. I will call “residual V2” such construction-specific manifestations of I-to-C movement in a language (like English and the modern Romance languages except Raetho-Romansch) which does not generalize the V2 order to main declarative clauses.</jats:p>
収録刊行物
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- Parameters And Functional Heads
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Parameters And Functional Heads 63-90, 1996-04-25
Oxford University PressNew York, NY
