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Conlangery #45: Questions

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How Many WH Questions Can You Move?

Some netlangs have a limit on how many WH phrases can be moved. But in Russian, you can move them all. I think these multiple WH questions in a single clause are pretty unnatural. They just don't happen very well. And then with the movement, I'm sorry, were you going to say something? No, go ahead. Yeah. Well, that makes sense because that's for a VSO language that's like a natural focus position, isn't it?Yeah. So and then we have two SVO languages like English, which has WH movement and Chinese, which does not. Mm hmm. Oh, okay. Hmm. This is relating to if you

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