@article{Rugna_2020, title={German wh-copying: a top-down analysis}, volume={6}, url={https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-qulso/article/view/9700}, DOI={10.13128/qulso-2421-7220-9700}, abstractNote={<p class="p1">German <em>wh</em>-copying is often taken to represent clear evidence for successive cyclicity and for the Copy Theory of Movement. The generative literature has focused on a particular type of <em>wh</em>-copying displaying morphophonological identity among the overtly realized members of the A’-chain. The present article discusses the case of two additional types of <em>wh</em>-copying found in German, i.e. ‘imperfect’ and ‘complex’ <em>wh</em>-coping. It will be argued that standard bottom-up analyses run into a few complications when extended to account for the latter types of <em>wh-</em>copying. A novel analysis embedded in a Top-Down derivational model of grammar is then proposed, which is argued to be conceptually as well as empirically superior over more traditional alternatives. The analysis of complex <em>wh</em>-copying in German is further extended to the case of Afrikaans and dialectal Dutch.</p>}, journal={Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali}, author={Rugna, Giuseppe}, year={2020}, month={Sep.}, pages={187–219} }