Bulgarian relative and factive clauses with an invariant complementizer

Factive Relative Clauses in Pulaar

Relative Clauses

In this chapter, we examine the typology of relative clauses. We will define relative clauses as follows: (1) A relative clause (RC) is a subordinate clause which delimits the reference of an NP by specifying the role of the referent of that NP in the situation described by the RC. Since the NP whose reference is being delimited is in the matrix clause, we will call it NP mat , and we will call...

Relative Clauses in Hui ’ an Dialect

Based on the definition of the relative clause from Song (2001), this paper examines the relative clause in the Hui’an dialect from four parameters: (a) the relativization marker used; (b) the position of the head noun relative to the restricting clause; (c) the role and encoding of the head noun in the restricting clause; and (d) the role and encoding of the head noun in the main clause. The H...

Adjoined Relative Clauses

In Bach and Cooper (1978) a semantics is proposed for adjoined relative clauses in Hittite and for the NP S analysis of English relatives within the general framework of Montague (1974). The aim of their analysis is to show that a potentially serious set of counterexamples to the compositionality thesis the thesis that the interpretation of a construction is a function of the interpretations of...

Appositive Relative Clauses

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 s...