The left periphery of Slovenian relative clauses
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Marko Hladnik
Abstract
This paper is concerned with the syntactic structure of relative clauses (RCs). It examines one particular facet of what Slovenian data can contribute to the discussion, and at the same time provides an analysis of the left periphery in Slovenian RCs. Section 2 outlines some key developments in the literature concerning the syntax of restrictive relative clauses, and traces a line of related approaches from Kayne (1994) and Bianchi (1999) to Aoun & Li (2003), arriving at an analysis that I adopt. In Section 3 I then first show that the approach is compatible with and supported by data from Slovenian before providing a more fine-grained analysis of the left periphery, namely ForceP>>IntP>>FocP, where ForceP is responsible for typing the clause and hosting the RC head in its specifier, the IntP layer is the target of whmovement establishing the relative dependency, while FocP is the locus of elements associated with focus.
Abstract
This paper is concerned with the syntactic structure of relative clauses (RCs). It examines one particular facet of what Slovenian data can contribute to the discussion, and at the same time provides an analysis of the left periphery in Slovenian RCs. Section 2 outlines some key developments in the literature concerning the syntax of restrictive relative clauses, and traces a line of related approaches from Kayne (1994) and Bianchi (1999) to Aoun & Li (2003), arriving at an analysis that I adopt. In Section 3 I then first show that the approach is compatible with and supported by data from Slovenian before providing a more fine-grained analysis of the left periphery, namely ForceP>>IntP>>FocP, where ForceP is responsible for typing the clause and hosting the RC head in its specifier, the IntP layer is the target of whmovement establishing the relative dependency, while FocP is the locus of elements associated with focus.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction with a state of the art in generative Slovenian syntax 1
- On second position clitics crosslinguistically 23
- Participles come back to Slovenian 55
- Restructuring restructuring 69
- Clitics are/become Minimal(ist) 91
- The left periphery of Slovenian relative clauses 129
- Unaccusatives in Slovenian from a cross-linguistic perspective 145
- The modal cycle vs. negation in Slovenian 167
- The left periphery of multiple wh-questions in Slovenian 193
- A relative syntax and semantics for Slovenian 221
- The Slovenian future auxiliary biti as a tenseless gradable evidential modal 253
- Not two sides of one coin 283
- Quo vadis, Slovenian bipartite pronouns? 313
- Language index 329
- Subject index 331
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction with a state of the art in generative Slovenian syntax 1
- On second position clitics crosslinguistically 23
- Participles come back to Slovenian 55
- Restructuring restructuring 69
- Clitics are/become Minimal(ist) 91
- The left periphery of Slovenian relative clauses 129
- Unaccusatives in Slovenian from a cross-linguistic perspective 145
- The modal cycle vs. negation in Slovenian 167
- The left periphery of multiple wh-questions in Slovenian 193
- A relative syntax and semantics for Slovenian 221
- The Slovenian future auxiliary biti as a tenseless gradable evidential modal 253
- Not two sides of one coin 283
- Quo vadis, Slovenian bipartite pronouns? 313
- Language index 329
- Subject index 331
