RESTRICTIVE RELATIVE CLAUSES IN ACADIAN FRENCH
RESTRICTIVE RELATIVE CLAUSES IN ACADIAN FRENCH

Summary/Abstract: Restricted relatives in Acadian French display the following peculiarities: generalization of que ‘that’ as the relative complementizer; deletion of que ‘that’; orphaned prepositions; failure of subject-verb agreement between the relative noun and the embedded verb. This paper argues that such peculiarities arise from the tendency of Acadian French to use a matching rather than a raising pattern of derivation in restrictive relatives, which further involves non-quantificational chains. This parametric setting contrasts with the systematically raising pattern in the restrictive relative of Standard French.

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