By Mark Peters
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Consider the Serbo-Croatian sentences in (63) and (64), for instance. 27 (63) Serbo-Croatian (from Bosˇkovic´ 2000, 2002) a. Ko sˇta kupuje? who what buys b. *Ko kupuje sˇta? ’ (64) Serbo-Croatian (from Bosˇkovic´ 1999, 2002) a. *Sˇta sˇta uslovljava? what what conditions b. Sˇta uslovljava sˇta? ’ c. Sˇta neprestano sˇta uslovljava? what constantly what conditions d. Sˇta neprestano uslovljava sˇta? 28 (65) [sˇta sˇta i uslovljava sˇta i ] Bosˇkovic´ (2002) presents compelling evidence for this approach by showing that comparable instances of ‘‘exceptional’’ wh-in-situ in Romanian, as illustrated in (66b), are able to license parasitic gaps, as shown in (67).
54) a. [we talked [ PP about [ DP the [NP claim [CP that Mary will hire Peter]]]] i yesterday [ PP about [ DP the [NP claim [CP that Mary will hire Peter]]]] i ] 30 Chapter 1 b. 2 regarding nondistinctiveness and linearization, the complementary deletion operations of Wilder’s Chain-Internal Selective Deletion are required by linearization considerations: if some constituent of the PP chain in (54a) appears in both links, the structure cannot be linearized in accordance with the LCA and the derivation is canceled.
CP . . [CP #[C 0 #[C 0 #[C 0 #[C 0 WH i WH i WH i WH i [C 0 [C 0 [C 0 [C 0 C 0 ]#] C 0 ]#] C 0 ]#] C 0 ]#] [TP [TP [TP [TP . . WH i . . WH i . . WH i . . WH i . . ]]] . . ]]] . . ]]] . . 2, a structure containing a nontrivial chain cannot be linearized in accordance with the LCA; since the chain links are nondistinct, they induce violations of the asymmetry and irreflexivity conditions on linear order. By deleting chain links, Chain Reduction circumvents this problem and allows structures containing chains to be properly linearized.