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https://www.bilketa.eus/ark:/27020/Artxiker-01491771Centre de recherche sur la langue et les textes basques (IKER)Irurtzun, AritzIKER, artxibo-014917712016International audienceIn this chapter, I provide an overview of the different strategies employed for Wh-questions and focalizations across Basque dialects. I argue that a core property of Basque syntax is the fact that both Wh-and focus phrases undergo syntactic (A'-type) displacements, and that they exhibit the main characteristics of syntactic displacements (locality, successive cyclicity, sensitivity to islands, etc.). After analysing the " standard strategy " , which is available across all dialects, I provide an overview of the new in situ Wh-question strategy of the young speakers of Navarro-Labourdin and two different strategies that are employed across different dialects to generate reinforced foci: the highly contrastive rightward focus constructions (specific to Southern dialects, and particularly common in High Navarrese), and the 'reinforced movement' strategy of Navarro-Labourdin (a Northern variety). I finish with a brief description of some other constructions involving foci: the mirative focus constructions of substandard Basque, and the dialectal distribution of different types of split interrogatives.https://artxiker.ccsd.cnrs.fr/artxibo-01491771https://artxiker.ccsd.cnrs.fr/artxibo-01491771v1/file/Irurtzun%202016.Strategies%20for%20argument%20and%20adjunct%20focalization%20in%20Basque.pdfChapitre de livre | Liburu zatiavignette : https://www.bilketa.eus/in/rest/Thumb/image?id=ark:/27020/Artxiker-01491771&mat=articleNumengArchive ouverte HAL | HAL artxibo irekiafocusWh-movementleft peripherywh in situLinguistikaLinguistiqueStrategies for argument and adjunct focalization in Basque