Natural Syntax is a developing deductive theory, a branch of Naturalness Theory. The naturalness judgements are couched in naturalness scales, which follow from the basic parameters (or "axioms") listed at the beginning of the paper. The predictions of the theory are calculated in deductions, whose chief components are a pair of naturalness scales and the rules governing the alignment of corresponding naturalness values. Parallel and chiastic alignments are distinguished, in complementary distribution. Chiastic alignment is mandatory in deductions limited to unnatural environments. The paper deals with English interrogative main clauses. Within these, only the interrogatives containing wh-words exclusively in situ constitute an extremely unnatural environment and require chiastic alignment. Otherwise parallel alignment is used. Earlier publications on Natural Syntax: Kavčič 2005a,b, Orešnik 1999, 2000a,b, 2001a-f, 2002, 2003a-c, 2002/03, 2004. This list cites only works written in English.

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