Wh-movement--the phenomenon by which interrogative words appear at the                  beginning of interrogative sentences--is one of the central displacement operations                  of human language. Noam Chomsky's 1977 paper "On Wh-Movement," a landmark in the                  study of wh-movement (and movement in general), showed that this computational                  operation is the basis of a variety of syntactic constructions that had previously                  been described in terms of construction-specific rules. Taking Chomsky's paper as a                  starting point, the contributors to this collection reconsider a number of the                  issues raised in "On Wh-Movement" from the perspective of contemporary Minimalist                  syntactic theory (which explores the thesis that human language is a system                  optimally designed to meet certain interface conditions imposed by other cognitive                  systems with which the language faculty interacts). They discuss such wh-movement                  issues as wh-phrases and pied-piping, the formation of A-bar chains and the copy                  theory of movement, cyclicity and locality of wh-movement, and the typology of                  wh-constructions. By reconsidering core characteristics of the wh-movement operation                  first systematically discussed by Chomsky from the Minimalist perspective, this                  volume contributes to the further development of the theory of wh-movement and to                  the general theory of movement.Contributors:Brian Agbayani, Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng,                  Sandra Chung, Norbert Corver, Caterina Donati, Kleanthes K. Grohmann, Toru Ishii,                  Heejeong Ko, Howard Lasnik, Philip LeSourd, Chris H. Reintges, Luigi Rizzi, Bal?zs                  Sur?nyi, Akira Watanabe, Henrietta Yang

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