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2.2.3 Culy 1990<br />

Culy [1990] provides a cross-linguistic survey <strong>and</strong> analysis <strong>of</strong> IHRs in nine languages.<br />

He finds that internal heads are incompatible with universal <strong>quantification</strong> in all<br />

<strong>the</strong>se languages, as predicted by Williamson’s analysis <strong>of</strong> IHRs.<br />

Culy’s analysis <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>syntax</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>semantics</strong> <strong>of</strong> IHRs is different from Cole’s <strong>and</strong><br />

Williamson’s in that it assumes that <strong>the</strong> head NP is associated with a co-indexed<br />

wh operator that moves to COMP at LF. The S-structure <strong>of</strong> an IHR is shown in<br />

(2.11).<br />

(2.11) S-Structure <strong>of</strong> IHR (Culy p.96): NP i<br />

✟ ✟✟ ✟ ❍❍<br />

❍<br />

❍<br />

— N —<br />

S<br />

✟ ✟ ❍ ❍<br />

COMP S<br />

❍<br />

✟ ✟✟✟✟<br />

❍<br />

❍<br />

❍<br />

❍<br />

— NP i —<br />

✟ ✟✟ ❍ ❍ ❍<br />

— N i —<br />

wh i<br />

Culy adopts <strong>the</strong> interpretation framework proposed by Heim [1982]. Skipping <strong>the</strong><br />

details <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> steps involved in interpretation, I show in (2.12) a slightly simplified<br />

version <strong>of</strong> Culy’s LF structure for an IHR.<br />

(2.12) LF <strong>of</strong> IHR (from Culy p.166):<br />

NP i<br />

✟ ❍❍<br />

✟ ✟✟✟✟ ❍<br />

❍<br />

❍<br />

❍<br />

DET<br />

N i<br />

S<br />

✟ ✟✟✟ ❍ ❍ ❍<br />

COMP S<br />

✟ ✟✟ ❍ ❍<br />

wh i NP i S<br />

✏ ✏ <br />

(head) ...t NPi ...

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