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This paper compares wh-phrases-in-situ in Korean, Japanese, and Chinese with their overly-moved counterparts in English. Recently, Abe (2017) takes an Agree-based Minimal Search approach, while Saito (2017) takes a covert movement approach, revealing how wh-elements in Japanese associate with the corresponding Q-particles. On the other hand, it has been argued that, like those in English, wh-expressions in Chinese undergo phrasal movement to the Spec of CP to be adequately licensed (among others, see also Pan 2014). However, Chinese differs from English considering where wh-expressions are actually realized. In keeping with the recent proposals on wh-movement and interpretation in these languages, this paper uses three newly recruited diagnostics to show that Korean/Japanese argument wh-phrases undergo overt Agree-based licensing, but Chinese and English counterparts undergo overt phrasal movement, with the tail of the wh-chain realized in the former language but its head realized in the latter language. (Dongguk University)
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- Publisher :The Modern Linguistic Society of Korea
- Publisher(Ko) :한국현대언어학회
- Journal Title :The Journal of Studies in Language
- Journal Title(Ko) :언어연구
- Volume : 34
- No :3
- Pages :475-489
- DOI :https://doi.org/10.18627/jslg.34.3.201811.475