Towards a non-elliptical analysis of verbless relative adjuncts

• Main Authors: Gabriela Bîlbîie, Frédéric Laurens
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti 2010-01-01
• Series: Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
• Subjects: ellipsis; fragment; relative clause; Romanian; French
• Online Access: http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/index.pl/towards_a_non-elliptical_analysis_of_verbless_relative_adjuncts2

This paper presents an analysis of a set of Romanian and French adjuncts which are usually referred to as elliptical relative clauses. Despite the resemblance they bear to non-restrictive partitive relative clauses, these adjuncts cannot be analyzed as elliptical relative clauses for both syntactic and semantic reasons. A non-elliptical analysis in a construction-based grammar is then provided, which crucially relies on the two notions of fragment and cluster.