Article outline

• Organisation of this chapter
• 3.1A typologically interesting type between full moving and in situ languages
  • 3.1.1Malayalam
  • 3.1.2Bangla and Hindi-Urdu
  • 3.1.3Bantu languages
  • 3.1.4Greek (multiple wh-questions)
  • 3.1.5Persian
• 3.2The short movement of clause-internal wh-elements is focus-movement
  • 3.2.1 Kahnemuyipour’s (2001) work on Persian focus-movement
    • 3.2.1.1Arguments in favour of focus movement
    • 3.2.1.2Arguments in favour of movement to specvp
  • 3.2.2The role of [foc] in Trevisan fake wh-in situ
    • 3.2.2.1The parallelism between contrastive focus and clause-internally moved wh-elements
    • 3.2.2.2Trevisan wh-in situ and the roles of [foc], [q], and [wh]
• 3.3Intermediate conclusions
• Notes