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This paper addresses the restrictions of Italian relative  che  ‘what’ to finite environments and direct case gaps. While the standard analysis takes these restrictions to follow from the C status of  che , this paper argues for an alternative approach, according to which  che  is a DP, on a par with other interrogative and relative elements. Specifically, it is argued that relative  che  is identical to interrogative  che  and relative  cui  ‘what .obl ’ in the narrow syntactic derivation, up to the point of  transfer . Realization of relative  che  is then blocked at  ext  with oblique case gaps by the more specific  cui , along the lines of the Elsewhere Principle. The status of  cui  as a specialized relative element is also discussed. The restriction to finiteness for relative  che  is treated as an instance of a more general phenomenon that precludes bare DPs from occurring at the edge of infinitival relatives. Here I adopt and extend (Richards, Norvin. 2010.  Uttering trees . Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press) Distinctness Theory to account for the facts of Italian.

The Case and Finiteness Restrictions of Italian Relative che