Unifying definite and indefinite free relatives: Evidence from Mayan*
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Free relatives as in the English (1) and similar structures in other languages have been described as having definite or universal interpretation (Jacobson 1995, a.o.). They act as DPs and are islands for extraction. We will refer to this type of free relative as definite FRs. In addition to this cross-linguistically common definite FR construction, some languages also have a second free-relative construction that we will refer to as indefinite FRs (Pesetsky 1982, Izvorski 1998, Grosu & Landman 1998, Caponigro 2003, 2004, Grosu 2004, Šimı́k 2011, a.o.). Examples (2–3) exemplify definite and indefinite FRs in Hebrew:
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