Relabeling heads: A unified account for relativization structures

Linguistic Inquiry

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 519-560

  Donati, Caterina ^a   Cecchetto, Carlo ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Free relatives; Head movement; Labeling; Noun complementation; Pseudorelatives; Relative clauses

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054032728     PISSN: 00243892     EISSN: 15309150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/LING_a_00060     Document Type: Article

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