NEKI ASPEKTI WH-POMJERANJA I INVERZIJE SUBJEKTA I POMOĆNOG GLAGOLA U NEZAVISNIM I ZAVISNIM PITANJIMA U ENGLESKOM I ŠPANSKOM JEZIKU
SOME ASPECTS OF WH-MOVEMENT AND SUBJECT-AUXILIARY INVERSION IN SPANISH AND ENGLISH ROOT AND EMBEDDED QUESTIONS

Summary/Abstract: This paper examines some general properties of Wh-movement in English and Spanish, with a contrastive focus on inversion in Spanish and English Wh-questions. This syntactic phenomenon has been extensively analyzed from several distinctive viewpoints. In this paper, we will concentrate on contrastive analysis of English and Spanish Wh-question formation with a focus on distinction between Subject-Auxiliary inversion (SAI), which occurs in root, but does not apply in embedded questions in English. In Spanish, by contrast, although there is a great deal of dialectal variation, there is no root/embedded asymmetry in Wh-Questions: the auxiliary verb must follow the interrogative element which appears initially in the sentence, both in matrix as well as embedded questions.

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