Article outline

• Organisation of this chapter
• 5.1Type-specific analyses: Moving further!
  • 5.1.1Left-peripheral fake wh-in situ
    • 5.1.1.1Why wh-movement?
    • 5.1.1.2When the whole IP moves to the Left Periphery
  • 5.1.2 IP-internal real wh-in situ
    • 5.1.2.1Evidence against wh-movement
    • 5.1.2.2Northern italian wh-in situ is real wh-in situ
  • 5.1.3The Trevisan data in the theory of Northern Italian wh-in situ
• 5.2Beyond Northern Italian dialects
  • 5.2.1Sentence final (requirement). Or not?
  • 5.2.2(Optional) TP-internal wh-movement
  • 5.2.3Embedded wh-in situ
    • 5.2.3.1Long-distance questions
    • 5.2.3.2Indirect questions
  • 5.2.4Sensitivity to islands
    • 5.2.4.1Contemporary Spoken French
    • 5.2.4.2Spanish and Portuguese
• 5.3Features responsible for Northern Italian wh-in situ(s)
  • 5.3.1Pure wh-in situ
  • 5.3.2Three types of wh-in situ
    • 5.3.2.1Mixed pictures of wh-movement and wh-scoping
    • 5.3.2.2Variables and types of Northern Italian in situ/ex situ alternation
  • 5.3.3Wh-to-Foc and the theory of Northern Italian wh-in situ
    • 5.3.3.1Trevisan and similar varieties (type I): QP and Q-adjunction, plus focus movement
    • 5.3.3.2Lombard-like varieties (type II): Mixed languages with different availability of EPP in Foc _low
    • 5.3.3.3Bellunese (type III): A mixed language with a [wh]-feature in QembP…or something else?
• 5.4Concluding remarks
• Notes