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Danish non-specific free relatives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 May 2014

Anne Bjerre
Anne Bjerre*
Affiliation:
Department of Design and Communication, University of Southern Denmark, Engstien 1, DK-6000, Kolding, Denmark. bjerre@sdu.dk
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Abstract

Within the Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) community, one part of the Base Hypothesis concerning free relatives proposed by Bresnan & Grimshaw (1978) has gained wide support, namely that free relatives are headed by the wh-phrase. The second part of the hypothesis is that the wh-phrase is base-generated, and this has not gained support. In this paper, we will consider a subset of free relative constructions, i.e. non-specific free relatives, and provide support for this second part, restated in HPSG terms as a claim that there is no filler–gap relation between a free relative pronoun filler and a gap in the sister clause of the free relative pronoun.

Keywords

DanishHPSGfree relativessyntax
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Research Article
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Nordic Journal of Linguistics , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , May 2014 , pp. 5 - 27
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Copyright © Nordic Association of Linguistics 2014 

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