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Multiple Wh-frontingMultiple Wh-fronting

Multiple Wh-fronting

Kleanthes K. Grohmann, Cedric Boeckx

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Typological differences in the formation of multiple Wh-questions are well-known. One option is fronting all Wh-phrases to the sentence periphery. The contributions to this volume all explore this option from a number of perspectives. Topics covered include finer investigations of the "classic" multiple Wh-fronting languages (such as the South Slavic languages Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian), extensions to less well studied languages (Basque, Malagasy, Persian, Yiddish), explorations for languages that don't obviously fall into this category (German, Hungarian), peripheral effects (optionality o.

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OL16949100W

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Extraction (Linguistics)LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINESLinguisticsSyntaxWoordvolgordeGrammar & PunctuationVraagwoordenExtraction (grammatica)

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