1 Essays on Syntax and Semantics James Higginbotham 2 Partitions and Atoms of Clause Structure Subjects, agreement, case and clitics Dominique Sportiche 3 The Syntax of …

relative clause. IV. The relative pronoun is optionally deleted (sub-ject to certain constraints). The double role of the relative ‘‘head’’ was captured by the presence of two coreferential noun …

this in theory-neutral terms, I will for the moment call binding by a relative head "R-binding" and binding by the contents of relative Comp "X-binding." Thus, who X-binds the EC in (10) and a …

In the spirit of Chomsky (1970) on 'passive', the notion 'relative clause' is unlikely to be a primitive of the language faculty. This was explicitly recognized in , to the extent that the whmovement …

Bianchi, Valentina. 2002. Headed relative clauses in generative syntax, Part I. Glot International 6.7: 197–204. Concise but in-depth discussion of theoretical issues in the syntax of relative …

The syntactic constraint in (12) rules out cases of “vacuous binding” as in (10). In (10) both variables are bound by the relative pronoun even though “such” c-commands them. They are …

Ken Safir Relative Clauses in a Theory ofBinding and Levels The notion of "grammatical level" as Chomsky (1957) conceived ofit has been one of the most influential concepts of generative …

The relative clause itself is a predicate formed by λ-abstraction on the variable corresponding to the WH-word. (Partee 1976 suggests a general principle that all “unbounded movement rules” …

noun and the relative clause, implying that it is hierarchically higher. Relative clauses must be distinguished from various other types of embedded clauses. In (2a), a relative clause (RC) …

The derivation from DS to SS is ‘overt syntax’ in the sense that the applications of the transformational rules have phonetic consequences. At SS the derivation splits into one track …