Echo Questions and wh-movement: a case of Russian

It is a familiar fact that crosslinguistically wh- Echo Questions present considerable challenges to traditional theories of syntax of non-echo wh-interrogatives, since they systematically appear to contradict general claims about question formation such as the obligatoriness of wh-movement. This paper presents some novel facts concerning the syntax of Russian ‘request-for-repetition’ Echo Questions in contexts of multiple wh-elements (one of which is echo-introduced and the rest proceed from the previous utterance) and explores a possible way to account for their key syntactic features in terms of a double-CP structure (cf. Sobin 2010).