An Unmediated Analysis of Relative Clauses
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Proceedings of LFG10; CSLI Publications On-line
The standard analysis of relative clauses takes the relativized element in the relative clause to be a pronoun, sometimes unexpressed. However, consideration of internally-headed relative clauses, the behavior of idioms, and the cross-linguistic forms of relative clauses argue for a constraint-based version of the alternative "raising" analysis.
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