2017_Relative clauses in Romance: the factors ruling a complex system

2017_Relative clauses in Romance: the factors ruling a complex system
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Poletto, Cecilia & Sanfelici, Emanuela
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11. Jun 2018

Poletto, C., and E. Sanfelici (2017). ‘Relative clauses in Romance: the factors ruling a complex system’, in E. Stark and A. Dufter, Encyclopedia of Romance languages. Amsterdam: De Gruyter, 804-836. Abstract: In this chapter we present an overview of the relative clause system in Romance languages and offer a number of cross-linguistic descriptive generalizations. We will make use of both diachronic and geographical variation, viewing them as two sides of the same coin, which both reveal the type and number of syntactic processes active in relative clauses. The empirical domain we take into consideration includes three different aspects: the paradigm of lexical relativizers, the presence of resumption, and the lack of lexical relativizers in both restrictive and appositive relative clauses. The aim of this article is not to provide new analyses for these phenomena, but to show how cross-linguistic variation can direct our research towards precise generalizations

 
 
 
 
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