TY - JOUR AU - Chernova, Ekaterina PY - 2017/12/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - On wh-movement in Spanish Echo Questions JF - Borealis – An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics JA - Borealis VL - 6 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.7557/1.6.2.4146 UR - https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/borealis/article/view/4146 SP - 181-205 AB - <p>This paper examines Spanish echo questions, an understudied phenomenon even in extensively described languages such as English. In particular, it focuses on a very particular type of echo questions, such as those made in response to a previous yes/no question (e.g. <em>–</em><em>Did you buy </em><em>{<sup>mumble</sup>}</em><em>?; </em><em>–Did I buy what?</em>) and makes a detailed description, on the one hand, of inherent echo features, common across most languages, and, on the other, those language-specific. In particular, I argue that wh-in-situ is not the only possible option in Spanish EQs in order to get a proper, echo interpretation. In addition, I offer some evidence from Spanish data in favour of a particular syntactic structure underlying this sort of questions (Sobin 2010).</p> ER -