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This paper analyzes English “wh-slifting” sentences (for example, How old is she do you think). We argue that these sentences are not scope-marking constructions nor are they derived by simple clausal pied-piping as an alternative to wh-extraction. We show that such sentences are akin to declarative slifting sentences, but more restricted than the latter particularly in the kinds of evidential predicates...
The present paper is concerned with wh-in-situ in English and Japanese. Although it has been standard since Huang (1982) that wh-phrases in-situ undergo LF movement, a number of linguists argue that they do not move, but are 'unselectively bound'. The new set of data in this paper is better accounted for by the LF movement approach to wh-in-situ than by the unselective binding approach. In particular,...
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