A contrastive analysis of interrogative constructions in Romance: microvariation and theory

TitleA contrastive analysis of interrogative constructions in Romance: microvariation and theory
Publication TypeChapitre d'ouvrage
Année de publication2020
AuthorsDonati, Caterina
Book TitleContrastive studies in morphology and syntax
Series VolumeBloomsbury Studies in Theoretical Linguistics
PublisherBloomsbury
CityLondon
ISBN 9781350079182
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