On the Interpretation of Two-headed Stacked Relative Clauses

On a Matching Effect in Headed Relative Clauses

Headed relative clauses in generative syntax – Part I

A headed relative clause is a syntactically complex modifier involving abstraction over an internal position of the clause (the relativization site) and connected to some constituent it modifies (the relative ''head''). In the standard approach, abstraction is syntactically implemented by means of an unbounded dependency between the relativization site and a relative operator taking scope over ...

Headed relative clauses in generative syntax – Part II

3. The modification problem In the first part of this State-of-the-Article I discussed the connectivity problem, namely, the syntactic relation between the relative ‘‘head’’ and the relativization site. The second general issue that I will be discussing here is the way in which the whole relative clause is syntactically related to the modified ‘‘head’’. As a preliminary, it is necessary to dete...

Interpretation of relative clauses by young children: another look.

Interpretation of relative clauses sentences was investigated by having sixteen children between the ages of 3;5 and 4;6 act out sentences within four conditions that varied the number of potential referents for each noun within the sentence. No difference in interpretation accuracy was found between felicitous and infelicitous conditions or between biased and neutral conditions. This result ra...

Qualia Structure and the Accessibility of Arguments : Japanese Internally-Headed Relative Clauses with Implicit Target

The relationship between lexicon and pragmatics has been one of the most controversial issues in recent studies in linguistics. Lexicon in the conservative definition encodes only the information responsible for the regular syntactic mapping of lexical items. Any information that is not directly reflected in the syntactic structure is attributed to pragmatics. A more recent trend, in contrast, ...