Chinese Wh -in-Situ and Islands: A Formal Judgment Study

While it has long been assumed that argument wh-in-situ in Chinese is not sensitive to islands, this article shows that both argument and adjunct wh-in-situ are sensitive to complex NP islands (Ross 1967). It is argued that this finding is most compatible with the theory of wh-in-situ whereby both a...

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Published in:Linguistic inquiry 2020-07, Vol.51 (3), p.611-623
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