Unifying WH and Focus Movement: A Case study in English and Czech

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Unifying WH and Focus Movement: A Case study in English and Czech
Original language description
In the empirical, descriptive sections of this paper I first present the standard argumentation in favour of the structural and transformational nature of the Wh-questions in English, applying also the same arguments on Czech data. The study compares extraction domains, locality and constraints defined in terms of the assumed structures. I then demonstrate that similar characteristics can be found with Focus fronting in Czech. Because the two processes are subject to the same syntactic constraints, I propose a structural analysis using the concept of a Split CP which contains projections of the functional heads Focus and interrogative Mode. The analysis allows me to conclude that Focus and WH Movements in Czech should be analysed as alike, contrary to a frequent assumption that they are in distinct grammatical components.
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Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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