Parametrization of Quantificational Determiners and Head-Internal Relatives
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This paper investigates the factors that determine the typological distribution of headinternal relative clauses (HIRC), especially in view of the fact that there are two types of them. Our focus of attention is on the nature of determiners. Studies by Bonneau (1992), Basilico (1996), and Grosu and Landman (1998) all point to the determiner system as playing a crucial role in HIRC. None of these studies, however, provides a satisfactory principled account of how the determiner system interacts with the two types of HIRC. This paper proposes that an explicit theory of parametrization of the determiner system holds the key to understanding the syntactic properties of the two types of HIRC. Specifically, our theory claims that quantificational determiners come in two varieties, one which makes use of feature checking and the other that relies on binding. The typology of HIRC is sensitive to this parametrization of quantificational determiners. In section 2, I will examine typological characteristics of those languages which have HIRC in some detail, taking Japanese and Lakhota as representatives of the two types. Section 3 works out the theory of determiner parametrization and shows how it determines the properties of HIRC and wh-in-situ.
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تاریخ انتشار 2001