Towards a non-elliptical analysis of verbless relative adjuncts
Towards a non-elliptical analysis of verbless relative adjuncts
Author(s): Frederic Laurens, Gabriela BîlbîieSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti
Keywords: ellipsis; fragment; relative clause; Romanian; French
Summary/Abstract: This paper presents an analysis of a set of Romanian and French adjuncts which are usually referred to as elliptical relative clauses. Despite the resemblance they bear to non-restrictive partitive relative clauses, these adjuncts cannot be analyzed as elliptical relative clauses for both syntactic and semantic reasons. A non -elliptical analysis in a construction-based grammar is then provided, which crucially relies on the two notions of fragment and cluster.
Journal: Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
- Issue Year: 2010
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 51-67
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English