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Record Nr.

UNINA9910973644903321

Titolo

The Syntax of relative clauses / / Artemis Alexiadou ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, PA, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2000

ISBN

9786612163432

9781282163430

1282163434

9789027299239

9027299234

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (403 pages)

Collana

Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today, , 0166-0829 ; ; v. 32

Altri autori (Persone)

AlexiadouArtemis

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Relative clauses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

THE SYNTAX OF RELATIVE CLAUSES -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Some Issues in the Syntax of Relative Determiners -- Type-Resolution in Relative Constructions: Featural marking and dependency encoding -- Some Syntactic and Morphological Properties of Relative Clauses in Turkish -- On Relative Clauses and the DP/PP Adjunction Asymmetry -- Relative Asymmetries and Hindi Correlatives -- An Antisymmetry Analysis of Japanese Relative Clauses -- A Complement-of-N0 Account of Restrictive and Non-Restrictive Relatives: The case of Swedish -- Some Consequences of the Complement Analysis for Relative Clauses, Demonstratives and the Wrong Adjectives -- A Head Raising Analysis of Relative Clauses in Dutch -- Name Index -- Subject Index -- The Series LINGUISTIK AKTUELL/LINGUISTICS TODAY.

Sommario/riassunto

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.