Partial treatment of free-relatives

Free relatives are only partially handled. All free relatives on non-subject positions and some free relatives on subject positions are handled. The structure assigned to free relatives treats the extracted wh-NP as the head NP of the relative clause. The remaining relative clause modifies this extracted wh-NP (cf. (269)-(271)).

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(269)

what(ever) [_w<<15292>>i [_C [Mary likes _i]]]  (269)0(269

(270)

where(ever) [_w [_C [Mary lives]]]  (270)0(270

(271)

who(ever) [_w<<15299>>i [_C [Muriel thinks [_i likes Mary]]]] 

However, simple subject extractions without further emebedding are not handled (cf. (272)).

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(272)

who(ever) [_w<<15304>>i [_C [_i likes Bill]]] 

This is because ((271)) is treated exactly like the ungrammatical ((273)).

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(273)

*the person [ _w<<15310>>i [_C [_i likes Bill]]]