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Interrogatives and exclamatives with multiple wh-phrases in Russian: An experimental study of grammatical acceptability and felicitousness of interpretations
Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2026. Vol. 23. No. 1. P. 217–234.
The paper investigates Russian interrogatives and exclamatives with multiple wh-phrases based on two experiments, with additional support of the data from the Russian National Corpus. Since exclamatives are often viewed parallel to interrogatives, it is important to study both types of clauses with multiple wh-phrases alongside and to look for similarities and/or differences in their syntactic and semantic behavior. The aim of the present study is twofold. On the one hand, it verifies grammatical acceptability of interrogatives and exclamatives with multiple (non-)coordinated wh-phrases (with one fronted wh-phrase and another one staying in situ) in the first experiment. On the other hand, it verifies the availability of single-pair/pair-list (SP/PL) interpretations in interrogatives and exclamatives with two fronted (non-)coordinated wh-phrases
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(that undergo or not the Superiority effect) in the second experiment. The first experiment shows that interrogatives and exclamatives with one fronted wh-phrase and another one staying in situ, represent a marginal grammatical phenomenon and that exclamatives are less acceptable than interrogatives. It also demonstrates that coordination affects the grammatical acceptability of interrogatives and exclamatives. The second experiment points out that coordination is not a key factor in determining SP/PL interpretations: with both interpretation types being possible, PL interpretations are preferred over SP ones. It also demonstrates that the Superiority effect does not play a key role in facilitating SP/PL interpretations. To sum up, the paper contributes to the well-acknowledged area of linguistic research on interrogatives with multiple wh-phrases and extends it to exclamatives with multiple wh-phrases.
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Philology and Linguistics
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English
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