Which-hunting in Medieval England
| Autor: | Robert Truswell, Nikolas Gisborne |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | Truswell, R & Gisborne, N 2020, ' Which-hunting in Medieval England ', Canadian Journal of Linguistics, vol. 65, no. 3, pp. 326-349 . https://doi.org/10.1017/cnj.2020.11 |
| ISSN: | 1710-1115 0008-4131 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/cnj.2020.11 |
| Popis: | In many of the first English headedwhich-relatives,whichhas 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 ofwh-relatives in English. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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