Proceeding of ConSOLE XX, 2012,71-86 http://www.sole.leidenuniv.nl @ Ekaterina Chernova Echo Questions and Wh-Movement: a Case of Russian * Ekaterina Chernova It is a familiar fact that crosslinguistically wh- Echo Questions present considerable challenges to traditional theories of syntax of non-echo wh-interrogatives, since they systematically appear to contradict general claims about question formation such as the obligatoriness of wh-movement. This paper presents some novel facts concerning the syntax of Russian ‘request-for-repetition’ Echo Questions in contexts of multiple wh-elements (one of which is echo-introduced and the rest proceed from the previous utterance) and explores a possible way to account for their key syntactic features in terms of a double-CP structure (cf. Sobin 2010). 1. Introduction It is a familiar fact that crosslinguisticaly Echo Questions (henceforth EQs) are usually considered as a counterpoint to the traditional assumptions about the syntax of non-echo wh- interrogatives due to the fact that, as it has been claimed by Culicover (1976:73), their ‘relative unrestrictedness […] makes it unprofitable to attempt to integrate them into the analysis of the more usual types of questions’. In fact, prima facie one could get an impression that ‘the grammatical rules of the language should not generate them’, as noted by Cooper (1983:149). It seems that EQs constantly violate the general rules of question formation such as wh-movement and the consequential investment of subject-object word order, as shown in the English example (1a), or they exhibit apparent Superiority violations when containing more than one wh-element, as in (1b): (1) a. Did Mary have tea with who? (Sobin 2010: 132) b. What did who drink at Mary’s party? * This research was supported by the project FFI2008-06324-C02-02/FILO. I would like to thank the audience of 9 th European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages (University of Göttingen) and 20 th ConSOLE (University of Leipzig) for their observations and thought provoking questions. Special thanks are due to Ángel Gallego for a thoughtful reading of the earlier drafts of this paper and for many insightful comments and suggestions. I am also most grateful to Avel·lina Suñer, Francesc Roca, Montserrat Batllori, Angelina Markova, Radek Šimík and Peter Smith for their valuable comments and discussion. I also thank all my informants for their judgements.