Accusative resumptive pronoun in the Czech relative clauses with absolute relativizer co

0354808 - ÚJČ 2011 RIV CZ eng J - Journal Article
Fried, Mirjam
Accusative resumptive pronoun in the Czech relative clauses with absolute relativizer co.
Korpus - gramatika - axiologie. Roč. 1, č. 1 (2010), s. 16-29. ISSN 1804-137X
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z90610518
Keywords : relative clauses * relativizer * resumptive pronoun * corpus analysis
Subject RIV: AI - Linguistics

Using both qualitative and frequency-based quantitative analysis, this paper addresses the poorly understood patterning in the presence vs. absence of the accusative resumptive pronoun in the Czech relative clauses (RC) introduced by the absolutive relativizer co. On the basis of data from the Czech nationa Corpus, the study leads to the conclusion that the criteria that determine the distribution of the accusative resumptive pronoun go well beyond the traditionally invoked need for expressing agreement categories and grammatical relations. Instead, the distribution appears to depend on the semantic compatibility between the relativized noun and the proposition expressed by the RC, reflecting a functional distinction between a determinative and non-determinative (explicative) interpretation of the RC.
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