Wh-In Situ Licensing in Questions and Sluicing

This book addresses the question of how in-situ wh -phrases are licensed from a minimalist perspective in which the basic assumptions about narrow syntax need to be reduced to the bare minimum. I propose that in-situ wh -phrases are licensed by way of either minimal Search or covert internal Merge: while in-situ wh -adjuncts are uniformly licensed by covert internal Merge, in-situ wh -arguments have a choice between the two options, depending on whether the licensing C head is overtly manifested