Wh-questions in Malay: an explanation for the restriction of extraction to subject position with yang

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Wong, Bee Eng
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2008
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1081/1/6-Wong_Bee_Eng_6.pdf; http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1081/; http://www.ukm.my/~ppbl/3L/3LHome.html

In wh-question formation in standard Malay, only extraction from the subject position is possible. This is in contrast to the English language, where extraction is possible from positions lower than the subject position. In fact, in Malay, any argument in a position lower than that of a subject has...