Comparing Wh Movement in English and Czech

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Comparing Wh Movement in English and Czech

Original language description

This study compares Wh Movement in English and Czech, concentrating on (in)direct wh-questions. It demonstrates that Wh Movement exists in both languages, and within the local domain, its properties are fully comparable. The main distinctions concern two aspects. First, as for extraction domains, Czech tolerates a violation of the Left Branch Constraint while English tolerates preposition stranding. Second, contrary to English, Czech avoids long distance movement and allows multiple wh-elements fronted. The lack of Superiority Effect, That-trace Effect and Doubly Filled Complementizer Constraint suggest that apart from [+wh] there is also a syntactically active Focus feature involved in Czech.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60203 - Linguistics

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA16-16874S" target="_blank" >GA16-16874S: Noun Phrase - A Comparative Study of English and Czech projections in a generative framework</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Czech and Slovak Linguistic Review

ISSN

1805-1502

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Volume of the periodical

2017

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1-2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

117-140

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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