On the status of Resumptive Pronouns in Restrictive Relative Clauses

Chatsiou, Kakia

Abstract

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.

Citation

Chatsiou, K. (2006, July). On the status of Resumptive Pronouns in Restrictive Relative Clauses. Poster presented at LFG 06 International Conference, Universitat Konstanz, Germany

• Presentation Conference Type: Poster
• Conference Name: LFG 06 International Conference
• Start Date: Jul 10, 2006
• End Date: Jul 13, 2006
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2006
• Deposit Date: Jun 25, 2012
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 25, 2012
• Keywords: modern greek, relative clauses, resumption, LFG
• Publisher URL: http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/LFG/11/lfg06chatsiou.pdf
• Additional Information: Event Type : Conference