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On wh-words in English*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Andreas Koutsoudas
Andreas Koutsoudas
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Department of Linguistics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47401
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1. It is a well-known fact that in English wh-words occur both in interrogative sentences and in certain complex sentences (e.g. in relative clauses), and that whenever this is the case, the members of each such set of wh-words found are identical in form and have related meanings. For example, the interrogative pronoun in sentence (1) is identical in form to the relative pronoun in sentence (2); furthermore, these pronouns have a related meaning in that both refer to ‘human (subjects)’: (1) Who cut the pie? (2) The man who came yesterday cut the pie

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , September 1968 , pp. 267 - 273
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1968

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