TY - JOUR ID - 66649 TI - Parallel Merge, Multidominance and the Structure of Wh-Coordination JO - Language Research JA - JOLR LA - en SN - 1026-2288 AU - Karimi, Yadgar AU - Vaezi, Hengameh AD - Associate Professor in Linguistics University of Kurdistan AD - Assistant Professor of English Language, Azad Islamic University, Rasht Y1 - 2018 PY - 2018 VL - 9 IS - 1 SP - 39 EP - 58 KW - Parallel merge KW - Multidominance KW - coordination KW - wh-question KW - persian DO - 10.22059/jolr.2018.66649 N2 - Wh-coordination is a descriptive term used to refer to configurations where two wh-constituents are conjoined. Wh-coordination bears descriptive resemblances to conventional coordination and multiple wh-questions. However, closer inspection of wh-coordination reveals that it is different in both semantic and syntactic respects. In terms of its semantics, wh-coordination yields a single-pair reading, as opposed to the pair-list reading forced by multiple wh-questions. As for its syntactic properties, wh-coordination violates the Coordination of the Likes Law (Williams 1987), as opposed to conventional coordination. To explain such intrinsic characteristics of wh-coordination, we will advance a syntactic analysis of such constructions in terms of Parallel Merge and Multidominance. Crucially, on the basis of their syntactic and semantic peculiarities, it is argued that clauses containing wh-coordination have a bi-clausal structure, with VPs and TPs parallel-merged, where each wh-constituent is merged within its respective dominating clause and consequently, the two clauses are conjoined in the CP level. Under this analysis, coordination of the wh-constituents is only apparent; the real coordination occurs at the CP level of clauses containing the wh-constituents. The superficial coordination of the wh-constituents is an epiphenomenon ensuing from the linearization of bi-clausal conjunction. UR - https://jolr.ut.ac.ir/article_66649.html L1 - https://jolr.ut.ac.ir/article_66649_38e881a914e2e43a7baaeb2d38acd1a7.pdf ER -