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Appositive relative clauses
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In this article, an appositive relative clause (ARC) is coordinated with its antecedent to avoid problems that come with the adjunction analysis, and it predicts some interesting facts.Abstract:
The difference between restrictive and appositive relativization is usually represented in syntax as complementation versus adjunction with respect to the antecedent noun. Instead I propose that an appositive relative clause (ARC) is coordinated with its antecedent. This approach avoids problems that come with the adjunction analysis, and it predicts some interesting facts. First consider the structure of restrictive relatives. The two major analyses that can be found in the literature are depicted in (1).read more
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The syntax of appositive relativization: On specifying coordination, false free relatives, and promotion
TL;DR: Appositive relative clauses differ in some essential respects from restrictive relative clauses as discussed by the authors, and they can be put together as a third class of coordination denoting specification, which accounts for the different behavior of appositive relatives.
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Non-restrictive relatives are not orphans
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus mainly on empirical shortcomings of non-restrictive relative clauses and show that the appeal of such approaches is illusory, and outline an empirically superior "syntactically integrated" account.
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The Syntax of Relative Clauses
TL;DR: The pronoun-retaining indirect relative is used when the relativized constituent is relatively inaccessible to its matched constituent outside the clause as mentioned in this paper, which is the case in the indirect relative clause in modern Irish.
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Patterns of Relative Clauses
TL;DR: The authors discuss the range of possibilities and present a coherent classification of relative clauses, and the consequences of the amazing number of variations are for the grammar, as well as their consequences on the grammar.
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The antisymmetry of syntax
TL;DR: In this paper, the X-bar theory is introduced and the adjunction world order further consequences are discussed, including coordination complementation relatives and possessives extraposition, and the conclusion is given.
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French relative clauses.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an approach to the problem of foreign literatures and linguistics in the context of linguistics, and propose an approach based on linguistics theory.
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Strange Relatives of the Third Kind
Alexander Grosu,Fred Landman +1 more
Abstract: In this paper, we argue that there are more kinds of relative clause constructions between the linguistic heaven and earth than are dreamed of in the classical lore, which distinguishes just restrictive relative clauses and appositives. We start with degree relatives. Degree, or amount, relatives show restrictions in the relativizers they allow, in the determiners that can combine with them, and in their stacking possibilities. To account for these facts, we propose an analysis with two central, and novel, features: First, we argue that the standard notion of degree (a number on a measuring scale) needs to be replaced by a notion of structured degree, which keeps track of the object measured. Second, we argue that at the CP-level of degree relatives an operation of (degree) maximalization takes place. We show that the observed facts concerning degree relatives follow from these assumptions. We then broaden the discussion to other relative clause constructions. We propose that the operation of maximalization takes place in relative clauses when the head noun is semantically interpreted CP-internally, while syntactically the CP is part of a DP that also contains CP-external material. Based on this, we argue that degree relatives form part of a linguistically coherent class of relative clause constructions -- we call them maximalizing relatives -- which all show restrictions similar to those observed for degree relatives, and which differ semantically (and often also syntactically) both from restrictive relative clauses and from appositives. We discuss free relatives, internally-headed relatives, and correlatives.