Scrambling of Wh-phrases in Japanese
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Despite the a priori desiratum of assimilating the derivation and interpretation of wh-questions in Japanese to that in English, empirical evidence shows that overt displacement of wh-phrases in Japanese is not the same as overt wh-movement in English. The syntax of wh-phrases in Japanese is essentially the same as that of non-wh-phrases. Failure of scope reconstruction in certain cases is not evidence for a constraint applying specifically to wh-movement but is due to the computation of the available readings, the semantic effect or prosody.
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