The Syntax of Relative Clauses
Published on 15. July 2000
Book
Hardback
395 pages
978-90-272-2753-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book presents a cross-section of recent generative research into the syntax of relative clauses constructions. Most of the papers collected here react in some way to Kayne's (1994) proposal to handle relative clauses in terms of determiner complementation and raising of the relativized nominal. The editors provide a thorough introduction of these proposals, their background and motivations, arguments for and against. There are detailed studies in the syntax and the semantics of relative clauses constructions in Latin, Ancient Greek, Romanian, Hindi, (Old) English, Old High German, (dialects of) Dutch, Turkish, Swedish, and Japanese. The book should be of interest to any linguist working within generative syntax.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
670 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-2753-9 (9789027227539)
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Artemis Alexiadou | Paul Law | André Meinunger
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Content
1. Introduction (by Alexiadou, Artemis); 2. Some Issues in the Syntax of Relative Determiners (by Bianchi, Valentina); 3. Type-Resolution in Relative Constructions: Featural marking and dependency encoding (by Grosu, Alexander); 4. Some Syntactic and Morphological Properties of Relative Clauses in Turkish (by Kornfilt, Jaklin); 5. On Relative Clauses and the DP/PP Adjunction Asymmetry (by Law, Paul); 6. Relative Asymmetries and Hindi Correlatives (by Mahajan, Anoop K.); 7. An Antisymmetry Analysis of Japanese Relative Clauses (by Murasugi, Keiko); 8. A Complement-of-N0 Account of Restrictive and Non-Restrictive Relatives: The case of Swedish (by Platzack, Christer); 9. Some Consequences of the Complement Analysis for Relative Clauses, Demonstratives and the Wrong Adjectives (by Schmitt, Cristina); 10. A Head Raising Analysis of Relative Clauses in Dutch (by Zwart, C. Jan-Wouter); 11. Name Index; 12. Subject Index