Multiple (coordinated) (free) relatives

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2016-05-01

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Citko, Barbara
Gracanın Yüksek, Martına

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Building on the existing crosslinguistic research on wh-questions with coordinated wh-pronouns, in this paper we turn to relative clauses and examine the effects of coordination on the grammaticality of relative clauses with multiple relative pronouns. We first discuss a general restriction on relativization, which bans multiple relativization from a single clause. We attribute this restriction to either a syntactic violation (impossible promotion of the head) or a semantic violation (semantic mismatch between the head and the relative clause). Next, we turn to free and headed relatives with coordinated wh-pronouns, showing that they do not display the same amount of crosslinguistic variation as wh-questions with coordinated wh-pronouns. In particular, irrespective of the availability of a mono-clausal structure for wh-questions with coordinated wh-pronouns in a language (which in turn correlates with the availability of multiple wh-fronting), a mono-clausal structure for free relatives with coordinated wh-pronouns is not available. In this respect, free relatives pattern with headed relatives rather than wh-questions. We derive this parallelism from a fundamental difference between relative clauses and questions: the presence of a CP external head in relative clauses, but not in wh-questions.

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Coordinated wh-questions, Multiple (coordinated) relative pronouns, Free relatives, Headed relatives

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/47535

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NATURAL LANGUAGE & LINGUISTIC THEORY

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-015-9306-8

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Department of Foreign Language Education, Article

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B. Citko and M. Gracanın Yüksek, “Multiple (coordinated) (free) relatives,” NATURAL LANGUAGE & LINGUISTIC THEORY, pp. 393–427, 2016, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/47535.