Open AccessNon-restrictive relative clauses, ellipsis and anaphora
Author(s) -
Doug Arnold,
Robert D. Borsley
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
proceedings of the international conference on head-driven phrase structure grammar
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1535-1793
DOI - 10.21248/hpsg.2008.19
Subject(s) - ellipsis (linguistics) , nothing , anaphora (linguistics) , linguistics , relative clause , face (sociological concept) , range (aeronautics) , computer science , philosophy , epistemology , resolution (logic) , artificial intelligence , materials science , composite material
Non-restrictive relative clauses (NRRCs) can modify constituents which undergoˋpragmatic enrichment' when they appear in answers to questions. For example,in an interchange like: ˋA: What did Jo think? B: That you should say nothing,which is surprising.' What B says is surprising is that ˋJo thinks ...' On theface of it, this might seem problematic for approaches to NRRCs which assumeˋsyntactic integration' and to support an ˋorphan' analysis, where NRRCs arecombined with purely conceptual representations. In this paper we examine arange of elliptical and anaphoric phenomena, and show that this conclusion ismisplaced. In fact, the phenomena argue strongly in favour of a syntacticallyintegrated analysis.