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Arthur Stepanov
This paper investigates ‘wh-scope marking’ questions (cf. van Riemsdijk 1982) in two Slavic languages, Polish and Russian, from the syntactic and semantic viewpoints. On the basis of Slavic, we propose a syntactic analysis of wh-scope marking according to which the wh-scope marker (a wh-phrase in the matrix clause of a wh-scope marking question) forms a constituent with the clause containing the ‘true’wh-phrase. The resulting logical form is shown to provide for a straightforward compositional analysis of wh-scope marking, in the framework of Hamblin (1973) augmented by Dayal's (1994ff) proposal that the clause containing the ‘real’wh-phrase is a restriction on the existentially quantifying wh-scope marker. The present analysis supports the simplest view of the syntax-semantics interface, while employing the minimum necessary technology (e.g., no resort to indices, D- and S-structure as significant levels, or X-bar theory, unlike in previous accounts) to ensure the continuum of the two computational components.
