Investigating clausal wh-constructions in Romanian
Caponigro, Ivano (University of California San Diego)
Falaus, Anamaria (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-Laboratoire de linguistique de Nantes)

Date:	2023
Abstract:	Romanian has an articulated system of (non-)interrogative wh-clauses that look morphosyntactically similar or even identical to each other on the surface, while exhibiting striking differences in distribution and interpretation. Using a minimal set of criteria, tests and distinctions, this article presents the first systematic comparative overview of all clausal wh-constructions attested in Romanian. We show that none of these constructions can be reduced to any of the others and flesh out some of the challenges arising for a unified analysis of wh-constructions and wh-expressions.
Note:	Acknowledgments. This research was partly supported by the CNRS International Research Project Logic and Language: Crosslinguistic Variation in the Semantics of Functional Words (IRP LOGICALFUN).
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Wh-clause ; Wh-word ; Romanian ; Free relative clause ; Correlative clause
Published in:	Isogloss, Vol. 9 Núm. 4 (2023) , p. 1-32 (Articles) , ISSN 2385-4138

Adreça original: https://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/article/view/v9-n4-caponigro-falaus
DOI: 10.5565/rev/isogloss.325

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