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One of the fundamental problems of linguistics is how to solve tension between describing variations across languages and explaining how the grammar of each language can be acquired. In this short art...icle, I will show that the observed variations in English and Japanese can be adequately dealt with by assuming a different conception of the language faculty than the standard approach in generative grammar. In the proposed approach, the particular clustering of the characteristics in wh-echo questions in each language is claimed to be partially inherited from the related constructions of the language and partially from wh-questions. This leads to the conclusion that a possible range of cross-linguistic variations should be regulated by the laws/principles which guide the process of extension of inter-stage grammars, as is proposed in the Dynamic Approach to Language.show more
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