The syntactic structures of Russian wh-questions

Diplôme Thèse The syntactic structures of Russian wh-questions eng 2011-09-17 author Rojina Nina 596408 director Rizzi Luigi 22716 director Laenzlinger Christopher 27980 10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:17415 urn:nbn:ch:unige-174157 L. 724 This dissertation addresses a number of issues involving the syntactic structure of Russian wh-questions. This work proposes a different perspective on the syntactic structure of Russian wh-questions. The dissertation offers a comparative analysis of Russian wh-questions with other languages involving multiple wh-movement (a.o. Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian), and argues against the common perception of Russian as a language where a wh-phrase does not undergo wh-movement or show any Superiority effects. The data and analyses presented in this work argue for the opposite. The dissertation adopts the Cartographic approach to the syntactic analysis of wh-phrases in Russian. Russian Bulgarian Wh-questions Wh-movement Cartographic approach Serbo-Croatian Superiority effects That-trace effect Wh-scope marking construction Subjunctive complementizer Coordination of wh-elements Dewey 410 82 Département de linguistique 39 false e61486fb-a376-4115-b93c-fbde3b20d1e5 Thesis Public Nina Rojina.pdf 3257702 application/pdf openAccess Faculté des lettres / Département de linguistique

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