Adjoined Relative Clauses
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چکیده
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 its immediate subconstituents can in fact be handled compositionally given certain plausible assumptions about the translations of NPs, and by means of the technical device of 'distinguished variables'. In this note I would like to propose an extension of Bach and Cooper's analysis to cover a class of interpretations arising in Warlpiri adjoined relative clauses reported in Hale (1976). The claim is that by translating tenses on analogy with NPs these additional, so-called 'T-relative' interpretations, where the tense is modified rather than an NP, can be accommodated straightforwardly within the Bach and Cooper approach.
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