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Linguistic Inquiry (2016) 47 (2): 283–305.
Published: 01 April 2016
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In languages like English, disjunctive questions have an alternative ( ALT ) reading and a yes/no ( YN ) reading. The two readings behave differently; there are environments in which one reading disappears and the other one survives. In this article, examining novel Croatian data, I investigate the environments where the YN reading disappears. Such environments suggest that the two readings of disjunctive questions differ in the size of the disjuncts: ALT readings arise when the disjoint constituents are bigger than the TP , while YN readings arise from disjunctions of phrases as big as the surface string suggests and not bigger than the TP .
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Linguistic Inquiry (2008) 39 (2): 275–294.
Published: 01 April 2008
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The article argues for the Comp account (e.g., Groos and Van Riemsdijk 1981) over the head account (e.g., Bresnan and Grimshaw 1978) of free relatives (FRs), on the basis of several converging arguments from Croatian. Evidence from reconstruction effects shows that the wh -phrase introducing a free relative (WH FR ) originates inside the relative clause and wh -moves to its surface position. In addition, arguments from clitic placement show that the derived position of the WH FR is no higher than Spec,CP of the FR.