Abstract
Japanese is gererally recognized as a language in which there is no observable wh-movement. In this paper, it will be shown that there are two types of wh-elements: one identifiable as wh-operators and the other as non-quantificational variables. I claim that focus phrases and wh-operators undergo syntactic movement to a position that appears immediately above VP. This position is associated with a phrasal category, which I label Focus Projection (FocP). This paper discusses peculiar ordering restrictions in multiple questions in Japanese, as observed by Saito (1987, 1994) and Watanabe (1992). Given that operators undergo syntactic movement, I will provide a unified account for the ordering restrictions in relation to the Minimal Link Condition, as outlined by Chomsky (1992, 1995) and Chomsky and Lasnik (1993).
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