Syntactic Analysis of Kimbeere Relative Clauses

In this paper, Old High German mood alternations in the different types of subordinate clauses (complement, adverbial and relative clauses) are discussed. The use of the subjunctive in subordinate clauses is notoriously more frequent than in Modern German and has not yet been thoroughly investigated. Based on a comprehensive corpus study, the paper will show that the licensing conditions for the subjunctive in Old High German are determined by notions such as veridicality and – in relative contexts – specificity. These conditions are thus similar (but not always identical) to those observed for Modern Greek and Romance languages. Furthermore, a syntactic analysis is provided in order to account for the licensing of the subjunctive in each type of subordinate clause.

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Greek polydefinites revisited

Journal of Greek Linguistics ◽

10.1163/15699846-02101001 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

pp. 151-190

Author(s):

Evripidis Tsiakmakis ◽

Joan Borràs-Comes ◽

M.Teresa Espinal

Keyword(s):

Relative Clauses ◽

Empirical Support ◽

Syntactic Analysis ◽

Definite Article

Abstract This article focuses on the interpretation of the adjectives that appear in Greek polydefinite DP s. It provides empirical support to the established position that restrictive modifiers are preferred in polydefinite environments (Kolliakou 1995). At the same time, it shows that non-restrictively modified polydefinites are not excluded by grammar (Manolessou 2000). To reconcile the facts, a novel syntactic analysis of polydefiniteness as involving modification by either restrictive or non-restrictive reduced relative clauses is formulated. We extend Alexopoulou’s (2006) analysis of resumption in full relatives to polydefinites and defend that what looks like a preadjectival definite article is a resumptive clitic pronoun that values the unvalued definiteness feature of a null relative complementizer. We further defend that, while the prenominal definite article is interpreted as d-linked, the resumptive clitic is a dependent expression that is interpreted as a referentially bound anaphora.

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A Syntactic Analysis of English Relative Clauses Used by Korean EFL Speakers: A Corpus-Based Study

English21 ◽

10.35771/engdoi.2017.30.3.011 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 30 (3) ◽

pp. 219-245

Author(s):

Jeongjun Lee ◽

신근영

Keyword(s):

Relative Clauses ◽

Syntactic Analysis ◽

English Relative Clauses

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English comparatives as degree-phrase relative clauses

Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America ◽

10.3765/plsa.v2i0.4078 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2 ◽

pp. 26

Author(s):

Richard Thomas McCoy

Keyword(s):

Relative Clauses ◽

Syntactic Analysis ◽

Degree Phrases

It has been observed (e.g. Chomsky 1977) that English questions allow wh-movement of adjective phrases, but relative clauses do not, which is cited as a notable difference between two types of constructions that are otherwise very similar. However, I argue that relative clauses actually can arise from the whmovement of adjective phrases (which I here treat as degree phrases headed by a degree element) and that comparative clauses are the result; i.e., comparatives are actually relative clauses headed by degree phrases. This analysis removes the discrepancy between questions and relative clauses with regard to adjective movement, thereby further uniting the syntactic analysis of the two constructions.

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