In this work we intend to show that a typical property of North-Eastern Italian dialects
(NEIDs) namely the sequence wh-complementizer in embedded interrogatives
(which in some dialects also extends to non-standard (under the definition
by Obenauer 2006) and even standard main questions originally developed out
of a free relative structure where the complementizer is actually not a complementizer
but part of the internal structure of the wh-item heading the relative
clause
