Les questions en grammaire générative

Abstract

In this chapter, we address the generative approach to interrogative structures, mostly under the Principles & Parameters framework. After a brief theoretical overview, we discuss direct open and closed questions, then embedded questions, showing how I-to-C movement and WH-movement come into play. We then conclude on very brief considerations on more recent developments about the ‘left periphery’ of sentences, involving splitting the CP projection.

Keywords

• Questions
• WH-movement
• complementizer
• left periphery
• generative grammar