On projection and the shadow of [wh]
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Newman, Elise
Date Issued
2026
Journal
Linguistic Inquiry
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MIT Press
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Newman, Elise. 2026. "On projection and the shadow of [wh]." Linguistic Inquiry.
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Abstract
Much work has shown that wh-movement is subject to several kinds of locality restrictions cross-linguistically. I propose that these restrictions arise when [wh] projects
past the maximal projection that it came from. When this happens, it intervenes for whmovement, trapping the wh-element in its base position, unless it can escape through other
means. The need to escape the domain of [wh] is proposed to capture the distribution of
successive-cyclic movement and interactions with Voice in different languages. Different
locality conditions in different languages are captured by different distributions of the same
features and probes.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
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