French wh in-situ

This paper investigates the acceptability of wh in-situ expressions in embedded contexts in French. We report on two experiments that tested the acceptability of wh in-situ and ex-situ in embedded clauses of biclausal direct wh-questions and in indirect questions, and how their acceptability is modu...

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Autores: Baunaz, Lena|||0000-0003-4935-6369, Bocci, Giuliano|||0000-0002-3800-8249, Shlonsky, Ur|||0000-0002-7147-4794
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
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Palavra-chave:French
Wh in-situ
Intervention
Experimental syntax
D-linking
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spelling French wh in-situWhere are we and where do we go from here?Baunaz, Lena|||0000-0003-4935-6369Bocci, Giuliano|||0000-0002-3800-8249Shlonsky, Ur|||0000-0002-7147-4794FrenchWh in-situInterventionExperimental syntaxD-linkingThis paper investigates the acceptability of wh in-situ expressions in embedded contexts in French. We report on two experiments that tested the acceptability of wh in-situ and ex-situ in embedded clauses of biclausal direct wh-questions and in indirect questions, and how their acceptability is modulated by the presence of the negation in the embedded clause. In Experiment 1, the contexts favored a D-linked interpretation of the wh-element (in the sense of Pesetsky 1987), while the contexts in Experiment 2 disfavored it. Our results show that the in-situ strategy is generally more acceptable (or at least equally acceptable) than the ex-situ strategy in direct questions with long construal, regardless of D-linking and negation. By contrast, the in-situ strategy is significantly less acceptable than the ex-situ one in indirect questions, regardless of D-linking and negation. Our findings indicate that in long construal direct wh-questions, negation fails to selectively block wh in-situ. In this respect, French differs from many other languages (see e.g., Beck & Kim 1997, a.o.). We show that D-linking is not a necessary condition for in-situ in French. We discuss how our findings relate to the current debate between alternative formal analyses of wh in-situ in French. 22024-01-0120242024-01-01Articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://ddd.uab.cat/record/304769https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/isogloss.421reponame:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UABinstname:Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaInglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, la comunicació pública de l'obra i la creació d'obres derivades, fins i tot amb finalitats comercials, sempre i quan es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ddd.uab.cat:3047692026-06-06T12:50:31Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv French wh in-situ
Where are we and where do we go from here?
title French wh in-situ
spellingShingle French wh in-situ
Baunaz, Lena|||0000-0003-4935-6369
French
Wh in-situ
Intervention
Experimental syntax
D-linking
title_short French wh in-situ
title_full French wh in-situ
title_fullStr French wh in-situ
title_full_unstemmed French wh in-situ
title_sort French wh in-situ
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Baunaz, Lena|||0000-0003-4935-6369
Bocci, Giuliano|||0000-0002-3800-8249
Shlonsky, Ur|||0000-0002-7147-4794
author Baunaz, Lena|||0000-0003-4935-6369
author_facet Baunaz, Lena|||0000-0003-4935-6369
Bocci, Giuliano|||0000-0002-3800-8249
Shlonsky, Ur|||0000-0002-7147-4794
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Shlonsky, Ur|||0000-0002-7147-4794
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv French
Wh in-situ
Intervention
Experimental syntax
D-linking
topic French
Wh in-situ
Intervention
Experimental syntax
D-linking
description This paper investigates the acceptability of wh in-situ expressions in embedded contexts in French. We report on two experiments that tested the acceptability of wh in-situ and ex-situ in embedded clauses of biclausal direct wh-questions and in indirect questions, and how their acceptability is modulated by the presence of the negation in the embedded clause. In Experiment 1, the contexts favored a D-linked interpretation of the wh-element (in the sense of Pesetsky 1987), while the contexts in Experiment 2 disfavored it. Our results show that the in-situ strategy is generally more acceptable (or at least equally acceptable) than the ex-situ strategy in direct questions with long construal, regardless of D-linking and negation. By contrast, the in-situ strategy is significantly less acceptable than the ex-situ one in indirect questions, regardless of D-linking and negation. Our findings indicate that in long construal direct wh-questions, negation fails to selectively block wh in-situ. In this respect, French differs from many other languages (see e.g., Beck & Kim 1997, a.o.). We show that D-linking is not a necessary condition for in-situ in French. We discuss how our findings relate to the current debate between alternative formal analyses of wh in-situ in French.
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