A comparative syntax of internally-headed relative clauses in Gur

Headed relative clauses in generative syntax – Part I

A headed relative clause is a syntactically complex modifier involving abstraction over an internal position of the clause (the relativization site) and connected to some constituent it modifies (the relative ''head''). In the standard approach, abstraction is syntactically implemented by means of an unbounded dependency between the relativization site and a relative operator taking scope over ...

Headed relative clauses in generative syntax – Part II

3. The modification problem In the first part of this State-of-the-Article I discussed the connectivity problem, namely, the syntactic relation between the relative ‘‘head’’ and the relativization site. The second general issue that I will be discussing here is the way in which the whole relative clause is syntactically related to the modified ‘‘head’’. As a preliminary, it is necessary to dete...

Internally Headed Relative Clause Constructions in Korean

This paper attempts to analyze some grammatical aspects of the so called internally-headed relative clause construction in Korean. This paper proposes that the meaning of the external head kes is underspecified in the sense that its semantic content is filled in by co-indexing it to the internal head under appropriate conditions. This paper also argues that interpretation of kes is determined b...

Qualia Structure and the Accessibility of Arguments : Japanese Internally-Headed Relative Clauses with Implicit Target

The relationship between lexicon and pragmatics has been one of the most controversial issues in recent studies in linguistics. Lexicon in the conservative definition encodes only the information responsible for the regular syntactic mapping of lexical items. Any information that is not directly reflected in the syntactic structure is attributed to pragmatics. A more recent trend, in contrast, ...

On a Matching Effect in Headed Relative Clauses