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SUMMARY
The wh-element why in Chinese, weishenme, has two distinct interpretations (Lin, 1992; Tsai, 1994, 1999, 2008; Stepanov and Tsai, 2008; Fujii et_al, 2014): "reason weishenme" (henceforth weishenmeR), which typically yields yinwei "because"-answers, as in_(1a); and "purpose weishenme" (henceforth weishenmeP), which typically triggers weile "in order to"-answers, as in_(1b). This study thus follows Lu et_al`s general experimental design, and tests experimentally whether the two interpretations of weishenme indeed differ in island sensitivity. To the difference in their internal structures, the two interpretations of weishenme are also claimed to differ . . .
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