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Agreement and the structure of relative clauses
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2016-07-08
Author
Arsenijevic, Boban
Gracanın Yüksek, Martına
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The paper proposes an account of asymmetries in agreement patterns that obtain in restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses headed by hybrid agreement nouns d(j)eca 'children', braca 'brothers', and gospoda 'gentry' in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS). We note that relative clauses headed by hybrid nouns display different possibilities of agreement morphology on the relative pronoun koji/a/e 'which', depending, on the one hand, on whether the relative clause is restrictive or non-restrictive and on the other, on the case of the relative pronoun. We argue that the observed differences are the result of a conspiracy of the following factors: (i) hybrid number-agreement nouns introduce a null plural pronoun unspecified for gender (Postal 1966; den Dikken 2001; Torrego and Laga 2015), (ii) all plural case forms of the relative pronoun except for nominative and accusative show full gender syncretism (Alsina and Arsenijevic 2012b), and (iii) non-restrictive relative clauses involve a null definite pronoun and attach to the head noun higher than the restrictive relative clauses (Postal 1994; de Vries 2002; 2006). We maintain that the facts discussed in the paper argue against analyses which derive the differences between restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses from their LF representations, rather than from their overt syntax.
Subject Keywords
Restrictive relative clauses
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Non-restrictive relative clauses
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Hybrid nouns
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Agreement
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Null plural pronoun
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/39665
Journal
GLOSSA-A JOURNAL OF GENERAL LINGUISTICS
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.12
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Department of Foreign Language Education, Article