<研究ノート> Wh疑問要素の生起位置と解釈 : 英語および日本語と対照したロシア語の特徴

Abstract

In this paper, the way link/tail and focus elements appear in sentences of Russian is analyzed in order to look into the possibilities of their interpretation. The facts of Russian are contrasted with the existing analyses dealing with the focus structure of English and Japanese. The main findings are as follows: i) multiple exclamatives are permissible in Russian as they are in Japanese; ii) the (quasi-)obligatory Wh-fronting requirement in Russian can be relaxed in certain environments where a contrastive topic element occupies a sentence-initial position.