This paper investigates Coordinated Wh-Questions (CWQs) in Japanese, in which wh-phrases with distinct grammatical roles or syntactic categories are conjoined. Since such elements cannot be base-generated in a single position, CWQs raise the question of what is coordinated. Boskovic (2024) argues that a wh-indeterminate system is a prerequisite for wh-coordination, predicting that Japanese should allow it; existing accounts, however, derive Japanese CWQs from coordination of larger constituents such as CPs or vPs (Ishii 2014, Kasai 2016). I argue instead that Japanese CWQs involve genuine wh-coordination in a monoclausal structure. I further show that Japanese sluicing deletes the lowest complementizer Fin while retaining the Force head ka, indicating that Merchant's (2001) Sluicing-COMP generalization targets the lowest complementizer. Coordinated Sluicing accordingly divides into two subtypes: monoclausal wh-coordination when the first conjunct lacks ka, and biclausal multiple sluicing when it contains ka.
This paper examines the syntax of quantificational expressions in Chuj, a Mayan language spoken primarily in Guatemala and Mexico. Building on Royer, Buenrostro & Jenks (2026), we argue that Chuj quantifiers fall into two distinct syntactic categories. Some quantifiers function exclusively as
determiners
, while...
Justin Royer, C. Buenrostro, Rodrigo Ranero· Journal of Linguistics· 0 citations
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...
While the basic/underlying word order in Chinese languages is SVO, SOV patterns are also attested, and in Mandarin frequently arise for reasons of focus or (inner) topicalization (Ernst and Wang 1995; Paul 2005). In contrast to such optional OV, in many varieties of Wu Chinese an obligatory OV sequencing often occurs,...
Andrew Simpson, Zhi-Xian Huang· Natural language & linguisti...· 0 citations
Sentence coordination presents variation in Old and Middle French. We investigate two aspects of this variation: the syntactic level at which coordination occurs (CP vs. TP), and the choice between the two most common coordinating elements (et & si, both meaning ‘and’), which have been claimed to be essentially equival...
Bryan Donaldson, Ivy Shaw· Isogloss. Open Journal of Ro...· 0 citations
This paper argues that the overt shì in Mandarin pair-list answers functions as a discourse-anaphoric pairing predicate rather than a standard copula, or a focus marker. The relevant mapping is not created by overt shì itself, but is established by the Question under Discussion (QUD) structure, introduced explicitly by...
Jo-Wang Lin, Yen-Hui Li· Journal of East Asian lingui...· 0 citations
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