This paper presents the first detailed study of pronouncing multiple wh-pronouns within the same dependency in Mon (Mon-Khmer). I argue the data involve movement, and thus a wh-copying construction: multiple wh-copies can be pronounced, either in full pronoun form or in a reduced pronoun form—and I propose reduction occurs via m-merger (Harizanov in Nat Lang Linguist Theory 32:1033–1088, 2014). This supports the view (McCloskey in Everaert, van Riemsdijk (eds) The Blackwell companion to syntax, Blackwell, Oxford 94–117, 2006) that resumptive pronouns can be the pronunciation of structurally reduced copies. Interestingly, the distribution of full and reduced copies is highly free, although there is a puzzling restriction on where reduced copies can appear, which is analyzed with a context-sensitive constraint that is subject to Richards’s (Linguist Inq 29:599–629, 1998) Principle of Minimal Compliance. This relatively free, though constrained, distribution is novel, and is challenging for prominent approaches to copy-chain realization. For example, the linearization-based approach of Nunes (Linearization of chains and sideward movement, MIT Press, Cambridge, 2004) struggles to account for this restriction, and though I follow the economy-based approach of Van Urk (Nat Lang Linguist Theory 36:937–990, 2018) in having the syntax specify which copies end up pronounced, I show that economy does not drive copy reduction in the data here.

本文首次详细研究了在 Mon (Mon-Khmer) 中同一依存关系中多个wh代词的发音。我认为数据涉及移动，因此是wh复制结构：多个wh副本可以以完整代词形式或简化代词形式发音，我建议通过m-merger进行减少（Harizanov 在 Nat Lang 语言学理论 32:1033–1088, 2014）。这支持了这样的观点（Everaert 中的 McCloskey，van Riemsdijk (eds) The Blackwell partner to syntax，Blackwell，Oxford 94-117，2006），即恢复代词可以是结构简化副本的发音。有趣的是，完整副本和缩减副本的分发是高度自由的，尽管缩减副本的出现位置有一个令人费解的限制，这是通过受理查兹 (Linguist Inq 29:599–629, 1998) 的上下文敏感约束来分析的) 最小合规原则。这种相对自由但受限制的分布是新颖的，并且对于复制链实现的突出方法具有挑战性。例如，Nunes 的基于线性化的方法（链和侧向运动的线性化，麻省理工学院出版社，剑桥，