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LanguageQuestionSubquestionColorParameterValuePreference
Akan29amultiple_wh1
Amharic29amultiple_wh1
Bernese German29amultiple_wh1NA
Bwamu29amultiple_wh1NA
Czech29amultiple_wh1NA
Jula29amultiple_wh1NA
Ninkaré29amultiple_wh1NA
Finnish29amultiple_wh1
Gagauz29amultiple_wh1
Mongolian29amultiple_wh1NA
Linxia Chinese29amultiple_wh1
Huarong Chinese29amultiple_wh1
Hungarian29amultiple_wh1
Indonesian29amultiple_wh0.5NA
Italian29amultiple_wh1
Jejueo29amultiple_wh1NA
Kazakh29amultiple_wh1NA
Standard Mandarin29amultiple_wh1NA
Marathi29amultiple_wh1
Mopan Maya29amultiple_wh1NA
Mooré29amultiple_wh1
Nepali29amultiple_wh1
Newari29amultiple_wh1
Turkish29amultiple_wh1
Kannada29amultiple_wh1
Polish29amultiple_wh1
Slovene29amultiple_wh1
Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian29amultiple_wh1
English29amultiple_wh1
Standard German29amultiple_wh1
Thai29amultiple_wh1NA
Upper Sorbian29amultiple_wh1NA
Vietnamese29amultiple_wh1NA
Oromo29amultiple_wh1

(29) Multiple questions

a) Can more than one constituent be questioned in the same clause?

Prompt: I know that several things were proposed at the meeting yesterday. Please tell me more:

Who proposed what?

Explanation: Make sure, e.g., by using a context of the sort given above, that neither of the question words has an echo-question interpretation. Other constructional types include, e.g., coordination (what did she fix, and how?).

Please use only interrogative pronouns, not complex expressions (such as which person).

If interrogative phrases go to the right in the language, please check in what order the two phrases can be arranged.

Background: Presence/absence of superiority effects in S-V-O vs. S-O-V languages