The Diverse Nature of Noninterrogative Wh

The syntactic structure of English clefts

“…It's MYSELF/ME that I dislike. 45 Authier and Reed (2005) claim that wh-blocking does not obtain in clefts, in contrast to restrictive relatives. I do not share this judgement, but for speakers that do, a version of Authier and Reed's solution may be appropriate.…”

Attributive constructions, scrambling in the AP, and referential types

“…The analysis hence uses a well-established analysis to arrive at the intended reading (cf. Chomsky, 1981Chomsky, , 1982Aoun and Li, 2003;Authier and Reed, 2005). 21 The resulting structure then is the following:…”

“…In this article, I will disregard the differences for adjectival interpretation pointed out by, e.g Bartsch and Vennemann (1972),. as these differences do not lead to any morphosyntactic differences that I am aware of.…”

“…21 Alternative conceptions, e.g. the raising analysis proposed byKayne (1994),Bianchi (2000) are not discussed here: AsBorsley (1997Borsley ( , 2001,Aoun and Li (2003) andAuthier and Reed (2005) point out, not all relative constructions seem equally amenable to a raising analysis. German attributive constructions show no sign of the reconstruction effects that substantiate Kayne's analysis and hence pattern firmly with the type of relative construction that the raising analysis does not seem to explain very elegantly.…”

Some notes on the ‘specificity effects’of optional resumptive pronouns

“…Even a partial survey of the literature on reconstruction effects in resumptive relatives shows that neither of these categorical predictions is cross-linguistically valid: there is actually a lot of variation. Furthermore, it is by now widely recognized that even relative clauses derived by movement do not always show full reconstruction effects (see especially Sauerland 1998, chapter 2, Bianchi 2004, Authier & Reed 2005: if we attempt a comparison, it turns out that reconstruction effects in resumptive relatives show the same range of variation that is found in movement relatives. For reasons of space I cannot report all of the relevant data here, so I will simply report the relevant sources: (i) Full reconstruction effects including anaphor binding, quantificational pronoun binding, and Condition C effects: -Hebrew resumptive relatives according to Shlonsky (2004) -English 'raising' that-relatives (Sauerland 1998, cf.…”