Prosodic Entanglement and the Anti-contiguity of Wh- and C

This chapter focuses on the syntax and prosody of wh - in-situ in Krachi. In Krachi, wh - in-situ is available in both root and embedded contexts. Prosodically, embedded complement clauses in the language are parsed as independent Intonational Phrases. The distribution of wh - in-situ in the language is considered against the backdrop of Richards’s (2010, 2016) Contiguity Theory. Given the prosodic facts previously mentioned, Contiguity Theory is shown to be incapable of accounting for long-distance wh- in-situ in the language, motivating an “anti-contiguity” theory of the prosody of wh - and C at the syntax-phonology interface.