Indifference and scalar inferences in free relatives

2015 ◽  
pp. 267-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle Rawlins
Keyword(s):  
Free Relatives

scholarly journals Identity and Indeterminacy in "-ever" Free Relatives

2015 ◽  
pp. 394
Author(s):  
Daphna Heller ◽  
Lynsey Wolter
Keyword(s):  
Free Relatives

No abstract.

scholarly journals Identity and Indeterminacy in "-ever" Free Relatives

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daphna Heller ◽  
Lynsey Wolter
Keyword(s):  
Free Relatives

No abstract.

Danish non-specific free relatives

2014 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-27
Author(s):  
Anne Bjerre
Keyword(s):  
Phrase Structure ◽  
Relative Pronoun ◽  
Phrase Structure Grammar ◽  
Free Relatives ◽  
Free Relative

Within the Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) community, one part of the Base Hypothesis concerning free relatives proposed by Bresnan & Grimshaw (1978) has gained wide support, namely that free relatives are headed by the wh-phrase. The second part of the hypothesis is that the wh-phrase is base-generated, and this has not gained support. In this paper, we will consider a subset of free relative constructions, i.e. non-specific free relatives, and provide support for this second part, restated in HPSG terms as a claim that there is no filler–gap relation between a free relative pronoun filler and a gap in the sister clause of the free relative pronoun.

Case and preposition stranding in Old English free relatives

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia L. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
Relative Clause ◽  
Relative Pronoun ◽  
Alternative Analysis ◽  
Free Relatives ◽  
Preposition Stranding ◽  
Made In

Abstract Taylor (2014) observes that some of the factual claims made in Allen (1980), the most thorough examination of free relatives in Old English to date, are not entirely correct. Taylor presents some examples that Allen’s analysis of Old English free relatives does not account for and proposes an alternative analysis in which the relative pronoun can be internal to the relative clause and the case of the pronoun is determined by the case hierarchy proposed by Harbert (2007) for Gothic. This corpus-based study supplies new data showing that while Taylor’s relative-internal analysis is needed for some examples, the evidence does not support the suggested case hierarchy except in regulating optional case attraction. Latin influence may account for examples that do not fit the usual patterns.

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