On complementizers and relative pronouns in Germanic vs. Romance

Richard S. Kayne

doi:10.1093/oso/9780198841166.003.0016

On complementizers and relative pronouns in Germanic vs. Romance

Richard S. Kayne

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Many Germanic languages have a finite-clause complementizer that resembles a demonstrative, e.g. English that, Dutch dat, German dass. No Romance language does. The traditional view of complementizers as simplex projecting heads that take IP or some comparable category as a complement has no way of accounting for this difference between Germanic and Romance. In this chapter, I will attempt to make progress toward an account, in part by reinterpreting finite-clause complementizers as relative pronouns.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Continuity and Variation in Germanic and Romance
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Pages	404-421
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	9780198841166
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198841166.003.0016
State	Published - Jan 1 2021

Keywords

Complementizers
Demonstratives
English
French
German
Relative pronouns

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General Arts and Humanities
General Social Sciences

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