WH-movement and the position of Spec-CP: evidence from American Sign Language.
| Number | 1053 |
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| Year | 1997 |
| Drawer | 20 |
| Entry Date | 06/29/1998 |
| Authors | Petronio, Karen, and Lillo-Martin, Diane/ |
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| Publication | Language, 73 (1), 18-57. |
| url | http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL1053.pdf |
| Abstract | Some researchers have claimed that WH-movement in ASL is rightward, contrary to the apparent universality of leftward WH-movement. In contrast to this claim, we argue that WH-movement in ASL is to a leftward specifier of CP. We account for the occurrence of rightward WH-elements by independently motivated syntactic and discourse factors which lead to the appearance of WH-elements in sentence- or dicourse-final positions - not by rightward WH-movement. Our analysis provides an account for a variety of ASL direct and indirect WH-questions and is in accord with cross-linguistic generalizations. |
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