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Abstract
In many of the first English headed which-relatives, which has an NP complement. Using distributional tests grounded in contrasts revealed by research in formal semantics, we demonstrate that the presence of an NP complement forces a nonrestrictive interpretation of the relative, while ‘bare’ which-relatives may be restrictive or nonrestrictive. We situate this finding in relation to both the formal semantics of relative clauses, and the history of wh-relatives in English.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 326-349 |
| Journal | Canadian Journal of Linguistics |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Early online date | 28 Jul 2020 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Sept 2020 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- relative clauses
- middle english
- discourse anaphora
- wh-phrases
- parsed corpora
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A Parsed Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English
Alcorn, R. (Principal Investigator) & Truswell, R. (Co-investigator)
1/01/16 → 31/12/17
Project: Research
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Robert Truswell
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences - Personal Chair of Syntax and Semantics
Person: Academic: Research Active