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Dear Edith,<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Your doctoral student might be interested in the following work I published in 2006.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Amidu, A. A. 2006. <i>Pronouns and Pronominalizations in Kiswahili Grammar</i>. (Grammatical Analyses of African Languages 27) Cologne (Köln): Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. Chapter 5 where I refer to multiple WH-elements and their combinations in Kiswahili might be of interest . If your student could read the entire work, that would be fine.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>The book is available from the publisher who can be reached at:</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Internet: <a href="http://www.koeppe.de">www.koeppe.de</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">email: <a href="mailto:info@koeppe.de">info@koeppe.de</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Assibi</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">____________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Assibi A. Amidu</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Professor of Swahili</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Department of language and communication studies,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">N-7491 Trondheim, Norway.</div></div><div>____________________________________________</div><div><div><div>Den 15. mar. 2008 kl. 18.03 skrev Edith Moravcsik:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div>A doctoral student here at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is carrying out a crosslinguistic survey of multiple wh-questions. So far we have not found much published material on the topic. If you are able to provide either data or literature references, this would be much appreciated.</div><div> </div><div>The following are the basic research questions.</div><div> </div><div>1/ SELECTION OF MULTIPLE WH-WORDS</div><div> What wh-words can cooccur in a question? There are clearly some constraints here; for example, in English, (some) wh-words that are verb complements can cooccur but adjuncts resist the pattern; compare "Who read what?" but "*Who read the book why?"</div><div> </div><div>2/ THE LINEAR ORDER OF MULTIPLE WH-WORDS RELATIVE TO THE REST OF THE SENTENCE</div><div> Are multiple wh-words "in situ" or do they occupy some other position?</div><div> </div><div>3/ THE LINEAR ORDER OF MULTIPLE WH-WORDS RELATIVE TO EACH OTHER</div><div> Do multiple wh-words that are not "in situ" have a preferred or required order relative to each other?</div><div> </div><div>4/ DO MULTIPLE WH-QUESTIONS ALWAYS HAVE A DISTRIBUTIVE INTERPRETATION?</div><div> For example, English "Who read what?" assumes more than one subject and more than one things to read and asks about the distribution of the reading materials over the set of subjects.</div><div> </div><div>5/ WHAT DOES IT DEPEND ON WHETHER A LANGUAGE DOES OR DOES NOT HAVE MULTIPLE WH-QUESTIONS?</div><div> This is a question about typological implications linking mutliple wh-questions to other properties of languages.</div><div> </div><div>Thank you.</div><div> </div><div>Edith A. Moravcsik<br>Professor of Linguistics<br>Department of Foreign<br> Languages and Linguistics<br>University of Wisconsin-<br> Milwaukee<br>Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413<br>E-mail:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:edith@uwm.edu">edith@uwm.edu</a><br>Tel: (414) 229-3068<br>Fax: (414) 229-2741</div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>