Round 200: Tossup 5

Like many related languages, Central Alaskan Yup’ik creates these expressions with a verbal mood denoted by the conjugation -ta. Jason Merchant modeled a form of ellipsis triggered by these expressions as a PF deletion; that ellipsis caused by them is called “sluicing.” (“SLOO-sing”) When these expressions are “d-linked,” they can ignore some constraints on them. In a classic example of an “island constraint, these expressions can leave words unable to be “extracted” grammatically if a (*) “fronting” named for them occurs. In languages like Japanese, these expressions (10[1])must form “in situ.” Linguists distinguish “polar” and “alternative” forms of these expressions. A “high rising terminal” can signal these expressions, which often involve wh-movement. For 10 points, what (10[1])sort of expressions are signaled by interrogative words? ■END■

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