Correlatives Cross-Linguistically

Name: Correlatives Cross-Linguistically
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Correlatives Cross-Linguistically
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Preface and acknowledgements
The landscape of correlatives
1. What is a correlative?
2. Why are correlatives interesting?
2.1 The position of the relative clause
2.2 The position of the head NP
2.3 The nature of the correlate
2.4 Multiple relatives
2.5 Comparison with relatives on the right periphery
3. Correlatives in the typology of relative clauses
4. The cross-linguistic distribution of correlatives
5. Syntactic approaches to correlatives
5.1 The position of the correlative clause
5.2 The derivation of correlatives
5.2.1 Uniformity accounts
5.2.2 Non-uniformity accounts
5.3 Comparative correlatives
6. Semantic approaches to correlatives
6.1 Dayal's (1996) approach to correlatives
6.2 Semantics for single correlatives
6.3 Semantics for multiple correlatives
6.4 The relation between correlatives and conditionals
7. The contents of this volume
References
Endnotes
Correlatives and related constructions
What don't wh-questions, free relatives, and correlatives have in common?
1. Introduction
2. Similarities
2.1 Use of wh-pronouns
2.2 Movement of the wh-pronoun
3. Differences
3.1 The availability of multiple wh-pronouns
3.2 Left branch extraction
3.3 Reconstruction effects
4. Analysis
5. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Endnotes
Basque correlatives and their kin in the history of Northern Basque
1. Introduction
1.1 The Basque language
1.2 Why this study?
1.3 Organisation of the paper
2. Background data
2.1 Some typological properties of (standard) Basque
2.2 Embedded clauses
2.3 -(E)n relatives and semi-free relatives
2.4 Appositive relatives
2.5 Further properties of appositive relatives and SFRs
3. Basque correlative protases and complex correlative sentences
3.1 Introduction: "nor/zer. bait-" free relatives
3.2 Are there "nor-/zer-.bait-" relatives in argumental position?
3.3 Differences between CorPs and SFRs
4. Differences between CorPs and other dependent wh-clauses
4.1 Indefinite free relatives
4.2 Unconditional clauses
4.3 Appositive relatives, CorPs and interrogatives: The wh-phrase
4.4 Summary of findings and the structure of CorPs
5. Correlative protases and conditionals
5.1 Basque conditionals
5.2 CCSs as paraphrases of conditional sentences
5.3 Correlative and conditional protases: ba- and bait-
5.4 On the relationship between correlative sentences and conditional sentences
6. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
Endnotes
{Relative {conditional {correlative clauses}}}
1. Introduction
2. Conditionals: yes-no relative clauses
3. Wh-expressions as extreme non-specific items
4. Correlatives: Conditionals with topical wh-PSIs
5. Two kinds of conditionals
6. The demonstrative
7. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Endnotes
Relatively different
1. Introduction
2. Research methodology
3. Some basic syntactic properties of LIS
4. LIS PE-clauses
5. Correlatives or internally headed relative clauses?
5.1 A correlative analysis: Cecchetto et al. 2006
5.2 Evidence for the nominal status of the PE-clause
5.3 Evidence for the correlate as a trace
5.4 Evidence for extraposition
5.5 Concluding remarks
6. An extraposed internally headed relative clause analysis
7. Restrictive or appositive?
7.1 Apparent reversability
7.2 An unexpected entailment
7.3 Testing the status of PE-clauses
8. Conclusions
Acknowlegments
References
Endnotes
The derivation of correlatives
The syntax of the Tibetan correlative
1. Introduction
2. Tibetan: An outline
3. Basic properties of the Tibetan correlative
3.1 Correlatives in Tibetan
3.2 Tibetan correlatives are not free relatives
3.3 Tibetan correlatives are not conditionals
4. The syntactic relation between the correlative CP and the correlative DP
4.1 The availability of 'demonstrative XP adjunction'
4.2 The availability of 'IP adjunction via movement'
4.3 The availability of '(non-local) IP adjunction'
5. The locality of merge and the locality of agree
6. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Endnotes
Adjunction, features and locality in Sanskrit and Hindi/Urdu correlatives
1. Correlative clauses in Indic languages
1.1 Correlative clauses in Hindi/Urdu
1.1.1 Clause internal and clause external relatives
1.1.2 A common semantic translation
1.2 Old Indic correlative clauses
2. A base-adjunction analysis
2.1 Symmetric and asymmetric adjunction of correlative clauses
2.2 Sanskrit-Hindi/Urdu finite clause combining strategies
2.2.1 Nonfinite clauses
2.2.2 Sanskrit clause architecture: The clause initial string and markers of subordination
2.2.3 No syntactically subordinate complement clauses in Sanskrit
2.2.4 Minimality violations in questions and relative clauses
2.2.5 The stacking condition on Hindi correlatives
2.2.6 Iterated restrictive correlative clauses
2.2.7. Syntactic conditions on adjunction structures in Hindi/Urdu
2.3 Adjunction structures and their consequences
3. The placement of correlative clauses: movement vs. base-generation
3.1 The Kaynean analysis of relatives (Mahajan 2000)
3.2 The CP-DP analysis (Bhatt 2003)
3.3 The construal relation between the correlative clause and the correlate
4. Feature valuation and anaphora in a base-generation analysis
4.1 Features common to correlatives in Sanskrit and Hindi
4.2 Anaphoric linking
4.3 The derivation of correlative structures
4.4 The interpretative interface
4.5 Locality
5. Summary and conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Endnotes
Comparative correlatives and successive cyclicity
1. Introduction: The problem
2. The macrostructure of Dutch comparative correlatives
3. Long-distance dependencies in comparative correlatives and successive cyclicity
3.1 Successive-cyclic movement via SpecCP
3.2 The principle of unambiguous binding (chain uniformity)
3.3 Long-distance dependencies in comparative correlatives: Analysis
3.3.1 The headclause/relative clause distinction
3.3.2 The role of finiteness
3.3.3 The nature of the (cor)relative pronoun
3.3.4 Word order in the headclause
3.3.5 The effect of embedding on long-distance dependencies
4. On successive cyclicity
5. Concluding remarks
Acknowledgements
References
Endnotes
On the matching requirement in correlatives
1. Introduction
2. Properties of correlatives
2.1 Leftward adjunction of the correlative clause
2.1 The demonstrative requirement
2.3 Multiple correlatives
2.4 The matching requirement of correlative constructions
3. The syntactic representation of correlative constructions
4. The matching relations in correlative constructions
5. The representation of matching relations
6. The violations of the matching requirement
7. Conclusions
Acknowledgement
References
Endnotes
Matching effects in the temporal and locative domains
1. Correlatives
1.1 Correlatives over individuals
1.2 Correlatives over worlds, degrees and times
1.3 Maximalization in correlatives
2. Temporal and locative correlatives
3. Matching effects
3.1 Matching effects with free relatives and correlatives
3.2 Matching effects with temporal correlatives
3.3 Matching effects with locative correlatives
3.4 Another difference between locative and temporal correlatives
4. Explanations
4.1 The first attempt: Points of time
4.2 The second attempt: Intervals
4.3 Explaining the difference between Hindi-Urdu and Hungarian in the temporal domain
5. Summary
Acknowledgements
References
Endnotes
Index
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