Edited by Alba Cerrudo, Ángel J. Gallego and Francesc Roca Urgell
[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics 34] 2021
► pp. 263–294
A growing number of works propose a direct role of PF in the generation of wh-in-situ. Relying mainly on data from Basque, we critically evaluate two such proposals (Richards, 2010; Mathieu, 2016) and argue that they face a range of empirical and conceptual shortcomings. We contrast these with the more “syntactocentric” proposal of Cheng & Rooryck (2000) for French, based on an intonational Q-morpheme that surfaces as a final rise in polar and wh-in-situ questions. We report the outcome of a production experiment providing evidence that the final rises of polar and wh-in-situ questions in Navarro-Labourdin Basque do not differ substantially, thus suggesting that Cheng & Rooryck’s (2000) proposal may be extended to this variety cohabiting with French.