Towards a new typology of coordinated wh -questions
Barbara Citko, Martina Gračanin‐Yuksek · Journal of Linguistics · 2012
In this paper, we develop a new typology of multiple wh- questions with coordinated wh- pronouns. We motivate the existence of three distinct structures for such questions: one mono-clausal and two bi-clausal. We use four kinds of diagnostics to determine which of the three structures is available in a particular language: the availability of both multiple wh- questions and wh- questions with coordinated wh- pronouns, coordination of two argument wh- phrases, transitivity restrictions and superiority effects.