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‘Long’ WH-Movements and Referentiality

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Current Issues in Comparative Grammar

Part of the book series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory ((SNLT,volume 35))

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In the recent literature on Bounding and Government, a certain consensus exists on the necessity of distinguishing two types of wh-movement : ‘long’ and’ successive cyclic’1, even though many fundamental aspects of this analysis are still moot; among these, the questions in (1) and (2).

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Cinque, G. (1996). ‘Long’ WH-Movements and Referentiality. In: Freidin, R. (eds) Current Issues in Comparative Grammar. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, vol 35. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0135-3_11

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