SENTENTIAL WORD ORDER AND THE SYNTAX OF QUESTION PARTICLES
Laura R. Bailey · Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent) · 2010
Polar question particles in languages with VO word order pose a problem for the otherwise robust Final-Over-Final Constraint, which rules out a head-final phrase immediately dominating a head-initial phrase (Holmberg 2000). This paper offers a description of these particles and the constraint, and offers data supporting the hypothesis that these final particles are different from their initial counterparts in a fundamental way.