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Typology of wh- constructions

• Week 1:
  • Topic: The unity of wh- constructions.
  • Reading: Chomsky (1977): On wh- movement
    
    
• Week 2:
  • Topic: The typology of wh- questions.
  • Reading:
    • Cheng (1991). On the typology of wh- questions
      
    • Richards (2008). Beyond strength and weakness
      
      
• Weeks 3 & 4:
  • Topic: Wh-in situ and the decomposition of wh- questions.
  • Reading:
    • Hagstrom (1998). Decomposing questions
      
    • Cable (2007). The grammar of Q.
      
      
• Week 5 & 6:
  • Topic: Multiple wh- fronting.
  • Reading:
    • Richards (1997). What moves where when in which language?
      
    • Pesetsky (2000). Phrasal movement and its kin.
      
    • Gribanova (2009). Structural adjacency and the typology of wh- interpretations.