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Wh-Expletives in Hindi-Urdu: The vP Phase
- Linguistic Inquiry
- The MIT Press
- Volume 41, Number 1, Winter 2010
- pp. 1-34
- Article
- Additional Information
This article addresses wh-displacement and wh-expletive constructions in Hindi-Urdu, accounting for parametric variation in terms of the properties of the phase-defining heads C and v. This analysis provides an understanding of a systematic set of contrasts between Kashmiri and Hindi-Urdu that suggests that crosslinguistic variation may follow from properties of specifically the phase-defining functional heads. It is then possible to construct a unified account of the various strategies of forming long-distance wh-dependencies in the two languages.