抄録
It will be argued that Agree alone is not sufficient to derive wh-questions in Japanese contra Watanabe (2006) and Munakata (2006). Specifically, covert movement or pied-pipng must follow after Agree. To validate this claim, three new pieces of evidence will be presented: scope interaction, de re/de dicto interpretations of nan-satu no NP ‘how many NPs,’ and long-distance construal of zibun-zisin ‘oneself.’ This claim, if true, supports Chomsky's (2004, 2007, 2008), in which he argues that covert movement (or pied-piping) and Agree are distinct operations. Hence, Chomsky's (2000, 2001) claim that there is no covert movement in the syntactic module should be rejected.
