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On complementizers and relative pronouns in Germanic vs. Romance
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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.
Title: On complementizers and relative pronouns in Germanic vs. Romance
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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.
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