Reconstruction Effects in Relative Clauses

by Manfred Krifka (Editor), Mathias Schenner (Editor)

Overview

Reconstruction effects in relative clauses are a class of phenomena where the external head of the relative clause seems to behave as if it occupied a position within the relative clause, as far as some commonly accepted principle of grammar is concerned.

An often cited type of example is “The [relative of his] [which every man admires most] is his mother.”, where the pronoun “his” in the relative head appears to be bound by the quantified noun phrase “every man” in the relative clause – although the latter does not c-command the former, which is commonly required for binding.

Several solutions have been developed in various theoretical frameworks. One interesting aspect about reconstruction effects in relative clauses is that they can be used as a benchmark for competing theories of grammar: Which architecture of the syntax-semantics interface can provide the most satisfying explanation for these phenomena? This volume brings together researchers working in different frameworks but looking at the same set of empirical facts, enabling the reader to develop their own perspective on the perfect tradeoff between syntax and semantics in a theory of grammar.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110380774
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	11/19/2018
Series:	Studia grammatica , #75
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	459
File size:	9 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Manfred Krifka, Humboldt University of Berlin&ZAS, Berlin; Mathias Schenner, ZAS, Berlin.

Table of Contents

An introduction to reconstruction effects in relative clauses Mathias Schenner 1

A Direct Compositionality approach to Condition C effects under reconstruction and their exceptions Manfred Krifka 35

Relative reconstructions Caroline Heycock 87

A calculus for reconstruction and anti-reconstruction Winfried Lechner 113

Notes on stress reconstruction and syntactic reconstruction Hubert Truckenbrodt 145

A new version of the Matching Analysis of relative clauses Martin Salzmann 187

Idioms as evidence for the proper analysis of relative clauses Gert Webelhuth Sascha Bargmann Christopher Götze 225

Some notes on connectivity and predicational copular sentences Maribel Romero 263

Functional readings without type-shifted noun phrases Irene Heim 283

Deconstructing reconstruction Pauline Jacobson 303

Evaluation order, crossover, and reconstruction Chris Barker 357

Telescoping by continuations Wolfgang Sternefeld 387

Telescoping in relative clauses Janina Radó Andreas Konietzko Wolfgang Sternefeld 405

Intensional relative clauses and the semantics of variable objects Friederike Moltmann 427