LING 371 Lecture 31: LING371 March 31st (conference)
4 Aug 2019
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This is not a yes-no question because you can answer this with a dp. These wh-words are automatically linked to the end of the sentence. In this case, what moves from the object movement of the verb eat all the way up to the specifier of cp position. This is not a sentence; it is a dp. It could be a subject for some sentence like the book which john read was interesting. Here we have an embedded clause: which john read. The wh-word which is thematically linked to the object position after the verb read. We could also have something like the book that john read. Here again, if you look at the clause that john read, it seems like read does not have an internal argument, but it should. We cannot say that that really moves because it is not the complementizer c. In a cp, you can either pronounce the specifier position or the head c.
