{"id":57,"date":"2008-04-18T11:29:39","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T09:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elanguage.net\/blogs\/booknotices\/?p=57"},"modified":"2008-07-31T15:07:15","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T13:07:15","slug":"multiple-wh-fronting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"Multiple wh-fronting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Multiple wh-fronting<\/strong>. Ed. by Cedric Boeckx<\/strong> and Kleanthes K. Grohmann<\/strong>. (Linguistics today 64.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2003. Pp. 292. ISBN 1588114198<\/a>. $169 (Hb).<\/p>\n

Reviewed by Sharbani Banerji<\/strong>, Ghaziabad, U. P. India<\/em><\/p>\n

Multiple wh<\/em>-questions do not show the same syntactic effects in all languages. The positions to which wh<\/em>-phrases (whPs) move show typological variation, as well as variation within a language depending on the interpretation of the whPs. Thus, superiority effects too show typological variation. With Noam Chomsky\u2019s minimalist program as the theoretical base, this collection of eleven papers tries to unravel the mysteries of wh<\/em>-movement in various languages. The two most important works that have served as the background for most of the papers are Catherine Rudin\u2019s (1988) work \u2018On multiple questions and multiple wh-fronting\u2019 and a series of works (e.g. 1997) by \u017deljko Bo\u0161kovi\u0107 on multiple wh<\/em>-fronting.<\/p>\n

In the \u2018Introduction\u2019 (1\u201315), the editors present a brief overview of the topic. In the first paper, \u2018Symmetries and asymmetries in multiple checking\u2019 (17\u201326), Cedric Boeckx<\/strong> compares the pattern of multiple wh<\/em>-fronting attested in Bulgarian with that in Serbo-Croatian, and explains the differences by underlining the distinction between Match and Agree. In \u2018On wh<\/em>-islands and obligatory wh<\/em>-movement contexts in South Slavic\u2019 (27\u201350), \u017deljko Bo\u0161kovi\u0107<\/strong> shows that all of the differences between Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian multiple wh<\/em>-fronting constructions can be traced to the PF status of the Bulgarian interrogative C. \u2018On the nature of multiple fronting in Yiddish\u2019 (51\u201376), by Molly Diesing<\/strong>, concentrates on the issues of superiority and landing sites of multiple wh<\/em>-fronting in Yiddish and its status in the overall typology of multiple wh<\/em>-fronting. Marcel den Dikken<\/strong>, in \u2018On the morphosyntax of wh<\/em>-movement\u2019 (77\u201398), makes a distinction between question-word phrases, echo-question phrases, and indefinites in terms of [+\/\u2013Wh] and [+\/\u2013Focus] features, and claims that wh<\/em>-fronting targets different Specs. In \u2018German is a multiple wh<\/em>-fronting language!\u2019 (99\u2013130), Kleanthes K. Grohmann<\/strong> proposes a typological tripartition of wh<\/em>-movement into zero, singular, and multiple wh<\/em>-movement languages. He then argues that German is, on the one hand, like Bulgarian, and on the other, like Italian.<\/p>\n

\u2018Deriving anti-superiority effects: Multiple wh<\/em>-questions in Japanese and Korean\u2019 (131\u201340), by Youngmi Jeong<\/strong>, studies anti-superiority effects in Japanese and Korean, and how the effect is avoided if there is an additional wh<\/em>-element. The account does not rely on the empty category principle (ECP). Anik\u00f3 Lipt\u00e1k<\/strong>, in \u2018Conjoined questions in Hungarian\u2019 (141\u201360), discusses conjoined multiple questions in Hungarian, providing evidence for a binary branching analysis of coordination. In \u2018Persian wh<\/em>-riddles\u2019 (161\u201386), Ahmad R. Lotfi<\/strong> examines multiple wh<\/em>-questions in Persian and proposes a timing analysis of the differences between wh<\/em>-arguments and adjuncts in Persian. In \u2018Non-wh<\/em>-fronting in Basque\u2019 (187\u2013227), Lara Reglero<\/strong> offers an analysis of multiple questions in Basque, in the light of Bo\u0161kovi\u0107\u2019s Attract-all-F approach. Joachim Sabel<\/strong>, in \u2018Malagasy as an optional multiple wh<\/em>-fronting language\u2019 (229\u201354), analyzes (multiple) wh<\/em>-questions in Malagasy, a wh<\/em>-in-situ language that displays partial and full wh<\/em>-movement as well.<\/p>\n

The collection ends with \u2018Multiple wh<\/em>-fronting in Serbo-Croatian matrix questions and the matrix sluicing construction\u2019 (255\u201384), by Sandra Stjepanovi\u0107<\/strong>, who analyzes the positions to which whPs move in Serbo-Croatian .The behavior of multiple wh<\/em>-phrases with respect to superiority in sluicing constructions reveals that sluicing must be a PF phenomenon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Multiple wh-fronting. Ed. by Cedric Boeckx and Kleanthes K. Grohmann. (Linguistics today 64.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2003. Pp. 292. ISBN 1588114198. $169 (Hb). Reviewed by Sharbani Banerji, Ghaziabad, U. P. India Multiple wh-questions do not show the same syntactic effects in all languages. The positions to which wh-phrases (whPs) move show typological variation, as well […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}