Wh-question 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: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2008
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/17642/1/Wh-question%20in%20Malay.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/17642/; http://ejournals.ukm.my/3l/article/view/1022

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...