| Feature-percolation, Pied Piping and Transparency (2007) | |||||||||||||||
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| this paper is to show that the SHPC is in fact not a universallyobeyed constraint and that there are clear instances of wh-movement in S. Asian languages where wh-feature-percolation interestingly appears to take place from other phrase-internal positions. In order to account for the variation found, we suggest that a more primitive notion of Transparency is involved in both feature-percolation and selection, and that the effects of the SHPC are found only in those languages where higher phrasal projections are opaque to feature-transmission. In order toreach such conclusions, we first briefly introduce the phenomenon of wh-clausal Pied Piping and then turn to a consideration of wh-CP movement patterns in Bangla and certain other languages of the S. Asian area. | |||||||||||||||
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