A REMARK ON FREE RELATIVES IN ENGLISH
1984 Volume 1 Pages 67-86
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1984 Volume 1 Pages 67-86
In earlier synchronic analyses of free relatives, no distinction is made between conditional free relatives and nonconditional free relatives. After making clear that the conditional/nonconditional distinction is crucial when any serious attempt is made to describe the construction, this paper shows, focusing solely on nonconditional free relatives, that Kuroda 1968 is descriptively more adequate than Bresnan and Grimshaw 1978, as an analysis of nonconditional free relatives in English.
