caa a22 4500 475782208 CHVBK 20180406123647.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1006475026526 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1006475026526 Denham Kristin Department of English, Western Washington University, 98225, Bellingham, WA aut Optional Wh-Movement In Babine-Witsuwit'en [Elektronische Daten] [Kristin Denham] In this article, Iargue that the Athabaskanlanguage Babine-Witsuwit'enexhibits optional wh-movement.The optional fronting is shownnot to be due totopicalization, focus, or clefling.Optional movement is of theoretical interestbecause it is not permitted in theMinimalist Program. Derivations are comparedand only the most economical succeeds; thus,the optional movement outcome isnot expected, and accounting for trulyoptional movement becomes an interestingquestion. I solve this problem by allowingoptional selection of C from thelexicon. If C and its wh-featureappear in the numeration, it will promptraising of a wh-feature and itsaccompanying wh-phrase to check off thewh-feature in C. If C does notappear in the numeration, then nowh-movement takesplace. It is shown how this proposal canaccount for the position of wh-phrasesin simple, complex, and embedded questions, aswell as account for scope factsin Babine-Witsuwit'en. The role of C inother languages - its selection from thelexicon and the projection of Cby certain verbs - is also briefly discussed. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 Natural Language & Linguistic Theory Kluwer Academic Publishers 18/2(2000-05-01), 199-251 0167-806X 18:2<199 2000 18 11049 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006475026526 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006475026526 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Denham Kristin Department of English, Western Washington University, 98225, Bellingham, WA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Natural Language & Linguistic Theory Kluwer Academic Publishers 18/2(2000-05-01), 199-251 0167-806X 18:2<199 2000 18 11049 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer