Wh-scope marking in Slavic

This paper investigates 'wh-scope marking' questions (cf. van Riemsdijk 198 2) in two Slavic languages, Polish and Russian, from the syntactic and sema ntic viewpoints. On the basis of Slavic, we propose a syntactic analysis of wh-scope marking according to which the wh-scope marker (a wh-phrase in th e matrix clause of a wh-scope marking question) forms a constituent with th e clause containing the 'true' wh-phrase. The resulting logical form is sho wn to provide for a straightforward compositional analysis of wh-scope mark ing, in the framework of Hamblin (1973) augmented by Dayal's (1994ff) propo sal that the clause containing the 'real' wh-phrase is a restriction on the existentially quantifying wh-scope marker. The present analysis supports t he simplest view of the syntax-semantics interface, while employing the min imum necessary technology (e.g., no resort to indices, D- and S- structure as significant levels, or X-bar theory, unlike in previous accounts) to ens ure the continuum of the two computational components.