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Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Some General Assumptions
1.2 Focusing on the Wh in-situ phrases
1.2.1 The Wh-fronting language
1.2.2 Partial Wh-movement language:German
1.2.3 Wh-in-situ language:Chinese
1.3 The Purpose of the Study
Chapter 2 The Wh-movement Analysis within the Early Theoretical Framework
2.1 Arguments for LF Wh-movement--Huang(1982)
2.1.1 The Selectional Restrictions
2.1.2 Specificity Effects
2.1.3 Locality conditions
2.1.4 Weak Crossover Effects
2.1.5 The scope of Wh-phrases
2.3 Pied-Piping Hypothesis--Nishigauchi(1990)
2.4 D-Linking and Not-D-Linkin-Petsetsky(1987)
2.5 Clause Typing Hyphthesis--Cheng(1997)
2.6 Summary
Chapter 3 Theoretical Developments
3.1 Theoretical Development
3.2 Enter the improved MP
3.3 The argument for the LF-movement constraints
3.4 Arguments against LF-movement--Reinhart(1998)
3.4.1 Interpretive problems of the Wh-in-situ
3.4.2 The interpretation of the derivation
3.4.3 Adjunct Wh-phrases
3.5 Summary
3.6 Syntax of Chinese Wh-questions in MP
Chapter 4 the Interfaces Condition
4.1 Split Feature Hypothesis--Shima(1999)
4.1.2 The OP-F of the Chinese Wh-phrase
4.2 From Feature Checking to Feature Matching
4.3 The Dislocated Feature Hypothesis-Tonoike(2000)
Chapter 5 Adopt the Focus Feature Operator Hypothesis
5.1 The language evidence
5.2 Wh-as variables
5.3 Focus feature in Chinese Wh-phrases
5.4 Tentative solution
5.5 The Interpretation of Movement
Chapter 6 Conclusion
References
Appendix
Published Paper during Degree Study
Acknowledgements