Jeong-Seok Kim (Korea University). 1998. Multiple WH-fronting and the Superiority Condition: A Minimalist Approach (다중 의문사 전치와 상위성 조건: 최소주의적 접근). Language Information. Volume 2. 301-331.
This paper explores Superiority effects in multiple WH-fronting in Korean/Japanese and Slavic within a minimalist framework (cf. Chomsky 1995). I argue that Superiority effects do not appear with focus movement by which WH-phrases move together via Checking-through-Adjunction as if they were a single constituent. However, Superiority effects appear with WH-movement by which the highest-WH moves to Spec of the strong [+WH] C. Hence, I show that WH-movement to Spec of CP is not a necessary requirement in forming multiple WH-questions in Korean, Japanese, Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian, and Russian.