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Restrictive relatives with generic heads--Are they 'ifs'?

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Abstract

An attempt to establish a close affinity between restrictive relatives with generic heads (mostly extraposed ones) and conditional if sentences. These structures share some significant semantic, syntactic, and logical characteristics, and it seems most unlikely that this fact is accidental. Emphasis is placed on the nature of the affinity itself rather than on its formal representation.
Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)259-273
Number of pages15
JournalStudies in the linguistic sciences
Volume3
Issue number1
StatePublished - 1973

Keywords

  • Clause ; Noun Phrase ; Syntax ; Transformational and Generative Grammar

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