Reconstruction Effects in Relative Clauses / / ed. by Manfred Krifka, Mathias Schenner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Bargmann, Sascha,; Barker, Chris,; Götze, Christopher,; Heim, Irene,; Heycock, Caroline,; Jacobson, Pauline,; Konietzko, Andreas,; Krifka, Manfred,; Lechner, Winfried,; Moltmann, Friederike,; Radó, Janina,; Romero, Maribel,; Salzmann, Martin,; Schenner, Mathias,; Sternefeld, Wolfgang,; Truckenbrodt, Hubert,; Webelhuth, Gert,
• HerausgeberIn: Krifka, Manfred,; Schenner, Mathias,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter (A), , [2018]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Studia grammatica , 75
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VI, 453 p.)

Reconstruction effects in relative clauses are a class of phenomena where the external head of the relative clause seems to behave as if it occupied a position within the relative clause, as far as some commonly accepted principle of grammar is concerned. An often cited type of example is “The [rela...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• An introduction to reconstruction effects in relative clauses
• A Direct Compositionality approach to Condition C effects under reconstruction and their exceptions
• Relative reconstructions
• A calculus for reconstruction and anti-reconstruction
• Notes on stress reconstruction and syntactic reconstruction
• A new version of the Matching Analysis of relative clauses
• Idioms as evidence for the proper analysis of relative clauses
• Some notes on connectivity and predicational copular sentences
• Functional readings without type-shifted noun phrases
• Deconstructing reconstruction
• Evaluation order, crossover, and reconstruction
• Telescoping by continuations
• Telescoping in relative clauses
• Intensional relative clauses and the semantics of variable objects