Accusative resumptive pronoun in the Czech relative clauses with absolute relativizer co
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SYSNO ASEP
0354808
Document Type
J - Journal Article
R&D Document Type
Journal Article
Subsidiary J
Ostatní články
Title
Accusative resumptive pronoun in the Czech relative clauses with absolute relativizer co
Author(s)
Fried, Mirjam (UJC-A)
Source Title
Korpus - gramatika - axiologie
- ISSN 1804-137X
Roč. 1, č. 1 (2010), s. 16-29
Number of pages
14 s.
Language
eng - English
Country
CZ - Czech Republic
Keywords
relative clauses ; relativizer ; resumptive pronoun ; corpus analysis
Subject RIV
AI - Linguistics
CEZ
AV0Z90610518 - UJC-A (2005-2011)
Annotation
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.
