Extraposed relative clauses from definite DPs (see: Kupferman 2016) and predicate relative clauses show up as exhibiting a large array of similar distinctive properties, but, moreover, they enter also into a major set of syntactic and interpretative constructions. All those relative clauses denote scenes which take place under a non agentive perception. Verbal or nominal items governing these relative clauses appear as predicates which function as setting factors of those scenes over the particular situation. Therefore, such a complex-sentence should be analyzed over two levels : an argument structure of secondary predication, and a syntactic structure, where the secondary predicate is projected as a (non standard) relative clause and the secondary argument is projected as an object DP of the primary VP. In a string formed by 1) an external head DP and 2) a non standard relative clause, 2) functions as a predicate, and 1) as its argument in a secondary predication mechanism. The submitted analysis wishes to overcome a more traditional description of the particular case of the predicative relative clauses, according to which they ought to be derived from complement clauses, where the complemetizer is converted into a subject qui.
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Univ Queensland, Sch Social Sci, Univ Queensland Social Res Ctr, St Lucia, Qld 4072, AustraliaUniv Queensland, Sch Social Sci, Univ Queensland Social Res Ctr, St Lucia, Qld 4072, Australia
Hosking, Amanda
Western, Mark
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Univ Queensland, Sch Social Sci, Univ Queensland Social Res Ctr, St Lucia, Qld 4072, AustraliaUniv Queensland, Sch Social Sci, Univ Queensland Social Res Ctr, St Lucia, Qld 4072, Australia