Wh-movement in Sudanese Arabic: A minimalist approach

The difference in the morphological and semantic properties of cross-linguistic whexpressions is due to the difference in wh-question formation strategies. it is the contention of this paper that wh-expressions are universally consistent,in the sense that their semantic force is undetermined in the lexicon. however,once they are chosen for the computation,the wh-expression becomes merged syntactically with another element and this gives rise to relative or interrogative semantic interpretation. the syntax of wh-expression generally falls in two categories: argument wh-expression and non-argument wh-expression. in conclusion,this paper maintains that the wh-movement's driving force is underspecified by the [+q] feature of the head c operator wherein the interpretation that wh-expression gets is at the level of the interface. © universiti putra malaysia press.