Re: THEORY: two questions

And Rosta wrote:

>> Does this constraint also apply to languages where wh-words aren't fronted?
>
>Surely not, because it doesn't apply to English:
>
>   I wonder who ate bread and what.
>   According to modern chemistry, lead and which other element are dangerous
>     when inhaled?
I find the first of your example sentences ungrammatical.  The second one is
good, though.  It's been noted that echo questions (a.k.a. surprise questions,
quiz-show questions), in which the wh-phrase is not fronted, do not obey
the same kinds of locality constraints as regular wh-questions, where the
wh-phrase is fronted.  This suggests that things like the Coordinate Structure
Constraint are constraints on movement per se, rather than, say, constraints
on embedding/processing/whatever.

Matt.