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Reduced Relatives

Reduced relatives are permitted only in cases of subject-extraction. Past participial reduced relatives are only permitted on passive clauses. See ((196)-(203)).
(195)0(195
(196)
the toy [$\epsilon $i [$\epsilon $C [ $\epsilon $i playing the banjo]]]   (196)0(196
(197)
*the instrument [$\epsilon $i [$\epsilon $C [ Amis playing $\epsilon $i ]]]   (197)0(197
(198)
*the day [$\epsilon $w [$\epsilon $C [ Amis playing the banjo]]]   (198)0(198
(199)
the apple [$\epsilon $i [$\epsilon $C [ $\epsilon $i eaten by Dafna]]]   (199)0(199
(200)
*the child [$\epsilon $i [$\epsilon $C [ the apple eaten by $\epsilon $i ]]]   (200)0(200
(201)
*the day [$\epsilon $w [$\epsilon $C [ Amis eaten the apple]]]   (201)0(201
(202)
*the apple [$\epsilon $i [$\epsilon $C [ Dafna eaten $\epsilon $i ]]]   (202)0(202
(203)
*the child [$\epsilon $i [$\epsilon $C [ $\epsilon $i eaten the apple ]]]  

These restrictions are built into the <mode> specifications of S.t. So non-passive cases of subject extraction have the following feature equation:
Sr.t:$\langle$mode$\rangle =$ ind/ger/inf Passive cases of subject extraction have the following feature equation:
Sr.t:$\langle$mode$\rangle =$ ind/ger/ppart/inf Finally, all cases of non-subject extraction have the following feature equation:
Sr.t:$\langle$mode$\rangle =$ ind/inf


 

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1998-09-14