• DOI:10.7551/mitpress/7197.003.0018
Corpus ID: 16219975

Mechanisms of wh-saturation and interpretation in multiple wh-movement

@inproceedings{Surnyi2004MechanismsOW,
  title={Mechanisms of wh-saturation and interpretation in multiple wh-movement},
  author={B. Sur{\'a}nyi},
  year={2004}
}

• B. Surányi
• Published 2004

1. Introduction Multiple wh-constructions, mostly of the Slavic type, have received considerable attention in recent minimalist literature. The present article demonstrates that Hungarian exhibits (at least) three syntactic patterns of multiple wh-questions, and relates these three syntactic patterns in a principled way to different focus structures. Modulo distinctions in focus structure, I relate the three multiple wh-constructions to three distinct sets of answerhood conditions they are… Expand

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