TY - JOUR
T1 - The semantics, syntax, and morphology of Transparent Free Relatives revisited; a comparison of two approaches
AU - Grosu, Alex
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
PY - 2016/11/1
Y1 - 2016/11/1
N2 - This article proposes to go beyond the earlier literature on Transparent Free Relatives (TFRs) by pursuing three interrelated goals: (i) To provide a sharper descriptive and analytical characterization of the semantic and pragmatic distinctions between TFRs on the one hand and Free Relatives (FRs) with a comparable internal configurational structure on the other. (ii) To provide for a number of representative sub-kinds of TFRs a compositional semantics substantially more detailed and precise than has previously been offered (in particular, in Grosu 2003, section 6). (iii) To carry out a comprehensive comparison of two views of the configurational structure of TFRs, by examining the extent to which each of them can deal with the syntactic, morphological, semantic and pragmatic properties of TFRs.
AB - This article proposes to go beyond the earlier literature on Transparent Free Relatives (TFRs) by pursuing three interrelated goals: (i) To provide a sharper descriptive and analytical characterization of the semantic and pragmatic distinctions between TFRs on the one hand and Free Relatives (FRs) with a comparable internal configurational structure on the other. (ii) To provide for a number of representative sub-kinds of TFRs a compositional semantics substantially more detailed and precise than has previously been offered (in particular, in Grosu 2003, section 6). (iii) To carry out a comprehensive comparison of two views of the configurational structure of TFRs, by examining the extent to which each of them can deal with the syntactic, morphological, semantic and pragmatic properties of TFRs.
KW - Counterparts/guises
KW - Individual concepts
KW - T(ransparent) F(ree) R(elatives)
KW - The FR-TFR distinction
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U2 - 10.1007/s11049-016-9333-0
DO - 10.1007/s11049-016-9333-0
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AN - SCOPUS:84991830669
SN - 0167-806X
VL - 34
SP - 1245
EP - 1280
JO - Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
JF - Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
IS - 4
ER -