On the Left Periphery of Some Romance Wh-Questions

Cecilia Poletto · Jean‐Yves Pollock

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Abstract This chapter sketches out the fine structure of the left periphery of questions as it emerges from our ongoing research on French, Bellunese, and Italian wh-questions (see Pollock et al. 1999; Poletto and Pollock 1999, 2000; Pollock 2000). The two basic principles that have guided our inquiry are simply stated. The first is standard in comparative work in generative grammar; it claims that the considerable variation in spell-out sequences exhibited by the wh-configurations across (those three) languages is not random; rather, it can be profitably (re)analyzed as reflecting the interplay of the invariant structure of the complementizer domain (in Romance) and a small number of morphologically based differences that are part of the primary linguistic data to which the language learners are necessarily exposed.

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