Wh-Phrases and Wh-Movement in Slavic *

Slavic languages are characterized by multiple wh-fronting (MWF) in overt syntax. Rudin (1988a, 1988b, in press) (for early studies of MWF, see Wachowicz 1974 and Toman 1981) argues that there are two types of MWF languages: in one type, represented by Bulgarian (according to Rudin, Romanian also belongs to this type), all fronted wh-phrases are located in SpecCP. There is another type of MWF language, represented by Serbo-Croatian (SC) (other languages belonging to this group are Czech, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian), where, according to Rudin, only the first fronted wh-phrase is located in SpecCP. Other fronted whphrases are adjoined to IP. Rudin thus assigns the structures in (2) to the Bulgarian and SC constructions in (1).

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