| Title: | Romanian Unexpected Relatives |
| Author: | Alexandru Grosu |
| Publication: | Revue roumaine de linguistique, LIV (1-2), p. 45-62 |
| p-ISSN: | 0035-3957 |
| Publisher: | Editura Academiei |
| Place: | București |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Abstract: | This paper addresses the syntactic-semantic analysis of an apparently sui generis construction that has so far been detected in Romanian only. The construction, called the “R(omanian) U(nexpected) R(elative construction)”) has the superficial appearance of a degree-denoting complex DP, except that it lacks the definite article that is typically found in the latter. Despite its indefinite appearance, an RUR has definite semantics and differs semantically from a minimally difference DP that possesses the definite article in that the relative-external NP fails to be presupposed. The analysis proposed in this paper locates the difference between RURs and comparable definite DPs in a formal feature [EQ] that is found in RURs only, and which triggers the interpretation of CP as a function from degrees to restricted intensional generalized quantifiers of degrees. |
| Language: | English |
| Links: |  pdf  html |
Citations to this publication: 3
| 0 | Alina Reșceanu | On amount relative clauses in Romanian | CIL2015/L, 77 | 2015 | |
| 1 | Florin Sterian | Bibliografia românească de lingvistică (BRL, 53, 2010). Lucrări de lingvistică apărute în țara noastră în cursul anului 2010 | LR, LX (3), 307-453 | 2011 | pdf html |
| 1 | Alexander Grosu | The Syntax-Semantics of Japanese/Korean Internally Headed Relative Clause Constructions | Studia UBB, LIV (4), 169 | 2009 | html |
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