Raising and matching in Pharasiot Greek relative clauses: a diachronic reconstruction
| Autor: | METIN BAGRIACIK, LIEVEN DANCKAERT |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163 (STL), Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
| Předmět: |
060201 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language matching 05 social sciences 06 humanities and the arts Pharasiot Greek [SCCO.LING]Cognitive science/Linguistics 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics relative clause Philosophy 0602 languages and literature prenominal postnominal 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences raising [SHS.CLASS]Humanities and Social Sciences/Classical studies |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Linguistics Journal of Linguistics, 2022, 58 (3), pp.495-533. ⟨10.1017/S0022226721000335⟩ Journal of Linguistics, Cambridge University Press (CUP), In press |
| ISSN: | 0022-2267 1469-7742 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0022226721000335⟩ |
| Popis: | This paper studies the structure and origin of prenominal and postnominal restrictive relative clauses in Pharasiot Greek. Though both patterns are finite and introduced by the invariant complementizer tu, they differ in two important respects. First, corpus data reveal that prenominal relatives are older than their postnominal counterparts. Second, in the present-day language only prenominal relatives involve a matching derivation, whereas postnominal ones behave like Head-raising structures. Turning to diachrony, we suggest that prenominal relatives came into being through morphological fusion of a determiner t- with an invariant complementizer u. This process entailed a reduction of functional structure in the left periphery of the relative clause, to the effect that the landing site for a raising Head was suppressed, leaving a matching derivation as the only option. Postnominal relatives are analyzed as borrowed from Standard Modern Greek. Our analysis corroborates the idea that both raising and matching derivations for relatives must be acknowledged, sometimes even within a single language. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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