Vietnamese wh-phrases and the syntax-semantics interface
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Vietnamese wh-phrases and the syntax-semantics interface

A syntax-semantics analysis of quantificational variability of wh-phrases in Vietnamese from a cross-linguistic perspective

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Many theories have been proposed to account for the fact that wh- phrases across languages can obtain various quantificational interpretations depending on the syntactic contexts where they occur. For example, Nishigauchi (1990) and Cheng (1991) hypothesize that wh-phrases are variables, and their quantificational forces derive from the binders that bind them. Their theories, however, do not provide a plausible answer to the island effects in wh-questions in Vietnamese given that in their theory there is no need for LF movement. To account for the Vietnamese data, their theories need to be rev...