Relativethatand prepositional complementation
| Autor: | Aimo Seppänen |
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| Rok vydání: | 1997 |
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| Zdroj: | English Language and Linguistics. 1:111-133 |
| ISSN: | 1469-4379 1360-6743 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s1360674300000381 |
| Popis: | Ever since the days of Jespersen, voices have been raised which argue that relativethatis not a pronoun likewhoandwhich, but a conjunction/complementizer, as shown in particular by the ban on the sequence preposition +that, which is claimed to be best described by treatingthatas a conjunction. Taking up the question of the proper analysis ofthatas it appears in the word's relationship to prepositions, the present paper argues that in actual fact the descriptions built by Jespersen and various generative grammarians on the view ofthatas a conjunction/complementizer are not at all adequate to deal with some crucial facts of the word's syntax. Noting then some further facts which even the traditional ban is unable to deal with, the paper develops a new approach to the question which is derived from an examination of Finnish relatives and which handles all the English facts noted in terms of a general principle about the internal order of elements within the fronted relative phrase. The principle invoked is completely neutral as regards the word-class status ofthat, but some of the facts explored strongly argue for the classification of the word as a pronoun. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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