@inbook {6619, title = {A contrastive analysis of interrogative constructions in Romance: microvariation and theory}, booktitle = {Contrastive studies in morphology and syntax}, number = {Bloomsbury Studies in Theoretical Linguistics}, year = {2020}, publisher = {Bloomsbury}, organization = {Bloomsbury}, address = {London}, abstract = {

The article is a brief survey of what we know about wh-questions across languages, and an

introduction to the specific contribution of Romance languages within a contrastive analysis.

Wh-movement displays some crosslinguistically stable properties and some parameters of

variation, that we are briefly reviewed. As for Romance, the phenomenon of wh-in situ in

French, of the ungoing grammaticalization of special complementizers, and of the systematic

ambiguity of free relatives and light headed relatives are briefly addressed

}, issn = { 9781350079182}, author = {Caterina Donati} }