ABSTRACT
Wh-constructions are characterized by unbounded (long-distance) dependencies between a sentence-internal position occupied by a variable, namely either a gap or a pronominal element, and a nominal element at the sentence or clause periphery (Chomsky 1977). Those constructions include constituent questions, restrictive and non-restrictive relatives, free relatives, comparatives, parasitic gaps, and topic (or clitic-left dislocated) constructions, among others. Resumption, the focus of this chapter, is a mechanism available for wh-constructions, which serves to establish a long-distance dependency between a nominal antecedent at the left periphery of a clause and/or a sentence, and a pronominal element inside the sentence, which depends on the antecedent for its interpretation (1). 1
