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Recovery of information in Relative Clauses: evidence from Greek and Hebrew1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Brian Joseph
Brian Joseph
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The Ohio State University
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Modern Greek has a Relative Clause Formation process by which the target of Relativization is deleted under identity with the head of the Relative Clause – these Relative Clauses are introduced by the invariant complementizer particle pu, which also introduces factive complements. (Greek also has a movement strategy for Relative Clauses, with an inflected Relative pronoun, but the details of this process are irrelevant here.) Examples of the deletion strategy are given below in (i):

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , September 1980 , pp. 237 - 244
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1980

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