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In the case of indirect questions, subjacency follows from the principle that a
given tree cannot contain more than one wh-element. Extraction out of an
indirect question is ruled out because a sentence like (45) would have to be
derived from the adjunction of do you wonder into whoi whoj ej loves ei, which is an ill-formed elementary
tree.8.9
(44)0(44
- (45)
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Whoi do you wonder whoj ej loves ei ?
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