Elena Titov

A Prosodic Account of Parametric Variation in Object Wh -Question Formation

This paper focuses on cross-linguistic differences in the obligatoriness of wh-object fronting in wh-ex-situ languages. In English, wh-objects may generally remain in situ in echo questions, whereas in Russian the fronting of simplex wh-objects has been claimed to be obligatory in request-for-repetition echo question...