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SUMMARY:Syntax-Semantics Seminar: Hashmita Agarwal
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SUMMARY:Syntax-Semantics Seminar: Colin Brown
DESCRIPTION:Colin Brown: \n  \nMultiple wh-clefts and their answers \n  \nContent questions with multiple wh-expressions\, such as ‘whosaw what?’ admit two different types of answer: single-pair answers andpair-list answers. This does not hold for cleft questions with multiple wh-expressions\,such as ‘who is it that saw what?’ which allow only a single-pair answer. Inthis talk I pose the following questions: (i) why do interrogative clefts withmultiple wh-expressions not permit pair-list answers? and (ii) how do weaccount for the availability of single-pair answers for multiple wh-clefts? Isuggest that (i) is explained by adopting Dayal’s (2002) account of multiplewh-questions with pair-list answers\, which requires the structurally lowerwh-expression to undergo covert movement to a scope-taking position. I suggestthis covert movement is not available in the cleft-question as the presupposedclause is analyzed as a null-headed relative clause (Percus 1997)\, andtherefore is an island to movement. Turning to (ii)\, Reinhart’s (1998) choicefunction analysis of wh-in-situ can account for the availability of single-pairanswers without appealing to island-violating covert movement. I extend thisanalysis to a language (Sm’algyax; Tsimshianic) which does not allow multiplewh-questions at all\, and suggest that this ban is explained if\, in thislanguage\, (i) wh-questions are structurally cleft-like constructions\, and (ii)there is no wh-in-situ.
URL:https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/syntax-semantics-seminar-colin-brown/
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