The Freezing Principle in Hungarian polarity, non-polarity and multiple wh -questions
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Gréte Dalmi
Abstract
This paper explores how weak erotetic vajon ‘whether, if…at all’ interacts with the interrogative clitic -e ‘QCL’ in polarity questions and with wh-words in non-polarity and multiple wh-questions in Hungarian. Vajon ‘if…at all’, sitting in ForceP, forms an expletive–associate chain with FINP, which hosts the polarity interrogative clitic -e ‘QCL’. Whenever the INT operator forms an OP-variable chain with the interrogative clitic -e ‘QCL’, this chain blocks Long wh-movement out of subordinate clauses. Weak erotetic vajon ‘if…at all’ signals such OP-variable chains. The same holds for subordinate multiple wh-questions, where the INT….wh-word chain blocks the extraction of another wh-word.
Abstract
This paper explores how weak erotetic vajon ‘whether, if…at all’ interacts with the interrogative clitic -e ‘QCL’ in polarity questions and with wh-words in non-polarity and multiple wh-questions in Hungarian. Vajon ‘if…at all’, sitting in ForceP, forms an expletive–associate chain with FINP, which hosts the polarity interrogative clitic -e ‘QCL’. Whenever the INT operator forms an OP-variable chain with the interrogative clitic -e ‘QCL’, this chain blocks Long wh-movement out of subordinate clauses. Weak erotetic vajon ‘if…at all’ signals such OP-variable chains. The same holds for subordinate multiple wh-questions, where the INT….wh-word chain blocks the extraction of another wh-word.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgements vii
- Why challenging clitics? 1
- Enclisis at the syntax-PF interface 27
- Clisis revisited 55
- Handling Wolof clitics in LFG 87
- Clitic placement and grammaticalization in Portuguese 119
- Diachronic source of two cliticization patterns in Slavic 135
- The Freezing Principle in Hungarian polarity, non-polarity and multiple wh -questions 159
- Pronominal markers in Cajun French 187
- The morphosyntax of -nde and post-verbal clitics in Cypriot Greek 209
- Acquisition of Italian object clitics by a trilingual child 233
- Clitic clusters in early Italo-Romance and the syntax/phonology interface 255
- Reflexive verbs and the restructuring of clitic clusters 283
- Language index 311
- Subject index 313
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Acknowledgements vii
- Why challenging clitics? 1
- Enclisis at the syntax-PF interface 27
- Clisis revisited 55
- Handling Wolof clitics in LFG 87
- Clitic placement and grammaticalization in Portuguese 119
- Diachronic source of two cliticization patterns in Slavic 135
- The Freezing Principle in Hungarian polarity, non-polarity and multiple wh -questions 159
- Pronominal markers in Cajun French 187
- The morphosyntax of -nde and post-verbal clitics in Cypriot Greek 209
- Acquisition of Italian object clitics by a trilingual child 233
- Clitic clusters in early Italo-Romance and the syntax/phonology interface 255
- Reflexive verbs and the restructuring of clitic clusters 283
- Language index 311
- Subject index 313
