Coordinated vs. matching questions in Romanian

In this paper I discuss and compare two types of questions in Romanian, namely multiple questions, where all interrogatives (WHs) appear in clause initial position and coordinated questions, where WHs appear coordinated in clause initial position. I show that coordinated questions and multiple questions in Romanian have different syntactic and semantic properties. Following Hornstein (1995), Dayal (1996), Comorowski (1997) and extending proposals in Chierchia (1993) I adopt an analysis of multiple questions in terms of skolem functions. I further argue that contrary to multiple questions, which are monoclausal, coordinated questions in Romanian are biclausal – that is, they are derived from the conjunction of two CPs.