Why Free Relatives Sometimes Behave as Indefinites
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Why Free Relatives Sometimes Behave as Indefinites
In this paper I show that the puzzling behaviour of (realis) Free Relatives (henceforth: FRs) as definites in some contexts and indefinites in others is best accounted for under the assumption that the covert D(eterminer) head that takes the overt CP as its complement (cf. [2]) is ambiguous: first, it can denote the sigma-operator (see [10]), which returns an object of type e, namely the maxima...
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عنوان ژورنال: Semantics and Linguistic Theory
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2163-5951
DOI: 10.3765/salt.v0i0.2514