A contrastive analysis of interrogative constructions in Romance: microvariation and theory
Résumé
The article is a brief survey of what we know about wh-questions across languages, and an
introduction to the specific contribution of Romance languages within a contrastive analysis.
Wh-movement displays some crosslinguistically stable properties and some parameters of
variation, that we are briefly reviewed. As for Romance, the phenomenon of wh-in situ in
French, of the ungoing grammaticalization of special complementizers, and of the systematic
ambiguity of free relatives and light headed relatives are briefly addressed