Coordinated Wh-Questions in English: A Corpus-Based Perspective
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English coordinated wh-questions (Coord-Wh Qs) allow two or more wh-phrases to be licensed in the sentential initial position (e.g., When and why did you see Kim?),inducing a single-pair reading. While English typically does not permit two wh-phrases to appear in the sentential initial position (i.e., *When why did you see Kim? ), multiple wh-phrases are allowed to be licensed in Coord-Wh Qs when joined by a conjunction. Previous studies assume that the wh-phrases of Coord-Wh Qs share their syntactic structure. Our comprehensive corpus investigation challenges this ‘structure-sharing’ strategy, suggesting that a more viable one is to directly license English Coord-Wh Qs with no derivational processes.
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English coordinated wh-questions (Coord-Wh Qs) allow two or more wh-phrases to be licensed in the sentential initial position (e.g., When and why did you see Kim?),inducing a single-pair reading. While English typically does not permit two wh-phrases to appear in the sentential initial position (i.e., *When why did you see Kim? ), multiple wh-phrases are allowed to be licensed in Coord-Wh Qs when joined by a conjunction. Previous studies assume that the wh-phrases of Coord-Wh Qs share their syntactic structure. Our comprehensive corpus investigation challenges this ‘structure-sharing’ strategy, suggesting that a more viable one is to directly license English Coord-Wh Qs with no derivational processes.