Multiple wh-movement and superiority effects in Czech
| dc.contributor.author | Atkey, Susan | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-06-21T21:02:23Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-06-21T21:02:23Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1999-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper examines multiple wh-movement in Czech. Rudin (1988) argues that Czech is a [-Multiply Filled Spec, CP] language in which only one wh-word appears in Spec,CP while the rest are IP-adjoined. It is argued that [-MFS] languages do not exhibit Superiority; however, recent research has shown Superiority to obtain in other [-MFS] languages such as Serbo-Croatian and Russian. I apply this research to Czech data to see if Superiority can be shown to account for the ordering of the multiply fronted wh-words. I conclude by showing that multiple wh-word order in Czech cannot be accounted for solely by the syntax. Rather, it is the complex relationship between syntactic and discoursal factors that determines wh-word order in Czech. | en_US |
| dc.description.refereed | Yes | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Atkey, S. (1999). Multiple wh-movement and superiority effects in Czech. Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, 21(Winter), 26-43. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/28952 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2371-2643 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1880/51431 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Calgary | en_US |
| dc.publisher.department | Linguistics | en_US |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Arts | en_US |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Calgary | en_US |
| dc.subject | Linguistics | en_US |
| dc.subject | Slavic languages | en_US |
| dc.subject | Czech language | en_US |
| dc.subject | Syntax | en_US |
| dc.title | Multiple wh-movement and superiority effects in Czech | en_US |
| dc.type | journal article |