Article outline

• Organisation of this chapter
• 2.1Characterising Wh-to-Foc
  • 2.1.1Free subject inversion and the pro-drop parameter
  • 2.1.2Are clause-internal wh-elements moved?
  • 2.1.3Which spec is targeted by clause-internally moved wh-elements?
• 2.2Checking C in the presence of Wh-to-Foc: Preliminary investigation
  • 2.2.1On [wh]- and [q]-features
  • 2.2.2On bipartite wh-words
    • 2.2.2.1On the illegitimacy of an extension of interrogative ClPs to all Northern Italian dialects
  • 2.2.3The grammar of Q and consequences for optional wh-in situ
    • 2.2.3.1 Cable’s (2010) ‘Grammar of Q’
    • 2.2.3.2Extending the theory of Q to Trevisan wh-fronting
    • 2.2.3.3Legitimacy of sub-extraction out of frozen wh-elements
• 2.3Intermediate remarks
• Notes