Title: A Syntactic Research on the Co-Appearance of Interrogatives Denoting Persons
Abstract: Based on the theories of focus and prominence,this paper reveals the reason of WH-movement of coappearance of wh-words in English interrogative sentences and WH-in-situ in Chinese interrogatives by mainly investigating the syntactical position of the coappearance of interrogative words denoting persons in multiple interrogative sentences: Owing to the feature of focus and prominence,one of the coappearance of wh-words in an English interrogative sentence should be profiled by being moved to the beginning of the sentence.
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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