An Investigation into the Behavior of Persian Multiple Interrogatives with Respect to the Superiority Effect
Journal Title: International Research Journal of Applied and Basic Sciences - Year 2013, Vol 5, Issue 10
Abstract
The goal of this study is to investigate the behavior of Persian multiple interrogatives with respect to the Superiority Effect (SE). Regarding the fact that this investigation and the suggested analysis adopts Chomsky’s (1995, 2000, 2001b) Minimalist Program (MP), the paper reviews and criticizes some studies concerning Persian (multiple) wh-movement and the effect of superiority on this type of movement. Contrary to Boškovi?'s (1999) idea that focused languages do not exhibit the SE, it is shown that multiple wh-questions in Persian, a focus language, exhibit SEs. On the other hand, it is argued that Kahnemuyipour's (2001) argument fails to work because it does not posit some types of Persian multiple interrogatives as instances of Superiority Violation (SUV). It is also argued that Kahnemuyipour's proposal cannot account for the sentences in which there is a wh-element in the subject position and thus in order to solve the problem, a syntactic license for SUVs in Persian is postulated.
Authors and Affiliations
Mohammadreza Pahlevannezhad| Associate Professor of linguistics Ferdowsi Univesity of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran, Abolfazl Shahali| PhD candidate in linguistics Ferdowsi Univesity of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran, email: Shahaliabolfazl@gmail.com
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