On the status of Resumptive Pronouns in Restrictive Relative Clauses

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description We discuss the status of Modern Greek Resumptive Pronouns, focusing on Restrictive Relative Clauses. Several analyses have been proposed to account for the phenomenon of resumption in Modern Greek Relative Clauses arguing in favour of a similar treatment of gaps and resumptive pronouns, suggesting that Binder-Resumptive Dependencies are triggered by the same mechanism as Filler-Gap Dependencies. In this paper, it is argued that resumptive pronouns are the ordinary pronoun forms of the language and that they are not alternative manifestations of gaps, presenting evidence from Asudeh's (2004) criteria for Hebrew, Irish and Swedish. Following this, we propose an LFG analysis for resumption in Modern Greek pu and o opios Restrictive Relative Clauses, distinguishing between two types of Dependencies (Filler-Gap and Binder-Resumptive Dependencies), following Asudeh (2004)'s treatment of the syntax of resumptives in these languages.
format Conference or Workshop Items
author Chatsiou, Kakia
author_facet Chatsiou, Kakia
authorStr Chatsiou, Kakia
author_letter Chatsiou, Kakia
title On the status of Resumptive Pronouns in Restrictive Relative Clauses
publishDate 2006
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/13768/

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