Syntax, Semantics and Acquisition of Multiple Interrogatives -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Superiority - Syntactic and interpretive -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Matrix-embedded asymmetry in Superiority effects -- 3. T-to-C movement and locality of wh-movement -- 3.1 Equidistance via head-movement -- 3.2 Non-identical Agree principle -- 3.3 The main-embedded clause asymmetry -- 4. Interpretive Superiority -- 5. Implications and consequences -- 5.1 Cross-linguistic predictions -- 5.2 Superiority in non-subject questions -- 5.3 Subject extraction and T-to-C movement -- 6. Summary -- Semantics of multiple interrogatives -- 1. The phenomena -- 2. Covert wh-movement and semantics of questions -- 2.1 Interpreting wh-in-situ -- 2.2 Choice functions -- 2.3 Syntactic evidence for/against covert wh-movement -- 3. Semantics of PL and SP readings -- 3.1 Previous accounts -- 3.2 PL readings as sets of sets of propositions -- 3.3 Syntactic and semantic contribution of the Q-morpheme -- 3.4 Compositional semantics for PL and SP readings -- 4. Capturing cross-linguistic variation with respect to the SP reading -- 4.1 Bošković (2003) -- 4.2 Parameterized selectional restrictions of the Q-morpheme -- 5. Interpretive Superiority -- 6. Complex Wh-phrases -- 7. Locality effects -- 8. Summary -- Multiple interrogatives and ellipsis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Phenomenon of sluicing -- 3. Licensing TP-deletion -- 3.1 Multiple Wh-fronting and contrastive focus -- 3.2 A Note on Multiple Foci -- 3.3 Focus-licensed sluicing -- 3.4 Overt material in Comp -- 3.5 Unifying the theory of licensing TP-deletion -- 4. Multiple sluicing and semantics of multiple interrogatives -- 5. Superiority under sluicing -- 6. Summary -- Multiple left branch extraction -- 1. Introduction.

2. The prohibition against multiple left-branch extraction -- 3. LBE as head-movement -- 3.1 D-linking and LBE -- 3.2 Toward an alternative analysis -- 4. Evidence from sluicing -- 5. LBE out of Islands -- 5.1 Interaction between LBE, islands and sluicing -- 5.2 The analysis: Locality and violation encoding -- 6. Summary -- Acquisition of multiple interrogatives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Multiple interrogatives and the nature of the input -- 2.1 What is there to acquire? -- 2.2 Previous studies -- 2.3 Evidence in the Input -- 3. Experimental schema -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Experiment 1: English vs. Russian -- 4.2 Experiment 2: Child wh-in-situ in Russian -- 4.3 Experiment 3: Malayalam -- 5. The Discussion -- 5.1 Acquisition of syntax of multiple interrogatives -- 5.2 Acquisition of the PL/SP readings in multiple questions -- 5.3 More remarks on Malayalam -- 6. Summary -- Acquiring contrastive focus and multiple interrogatives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Contrastive focus in child language -- 2.1 Contrastive focus -- 2.2 Previous studies on acquisition of contrastive focus -- 2.3 Syntax of contrastive focus: what is there to acquire? -- 2.4 Implications for multiple interrogatives -- 3. Method -- 3.1 Experimental schema -- 3.2 The experiment -- 4. Results -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Summary -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Appendix A: Test Items in Experiments on Multiple Interrogatives -- Appendix B: Script for experimental stories on multiple interrogatives -- Appendix C: Test items and script for experiments on contrastive focus -- Test items -- The script -- Test stories -- Index.