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Relative constructions and
unbounded dependencies
Rodney Huddleston
Geoffrey K. Pullum
Peter Peterson

1 Terminological preliminaries 1033

2 Types of relative construction 1033
2.1 Formal types: wh, that, and bare relatives 1034
2.2 The relational types: integrated, supplementary, cleft, and fused 1034
2.3 Finiteness 1036
3 The form of relative clauses 1036
3.1 Relativisation 1037
3.2 Relative words, relative phrases, and upward percolation 1039
3.2.1 Type I: from complement of preposition to PP (behind which) 1040
3.2.2 Type II: from PP complement of noun to NP (the result of which) 1040
3.2.3 Type III: from PP to AdjP ( prominent among which) 1042
3.2.4 Types IV and V: from NP to non-finite (to refute which, passing which) 1043
3.2.5 Type VI: from genitive whose to NP (whose essay) 1043
3.2.6 Type VII: from determinative which to NP (which suggestion) 1043
3.3 What can be relativised 1044
3.4 Relativisation of an element within an embedded clause 1046
3.5 The formal types: wh, that, and bare relatives 1047
3.5.1 Who and which 1048
3.5.2 Whose 1049
3.5.3 Other relative words 1050
3.5.4 The choice between the wh and non-wh constructions 1052
3.5.5 Non-wh relatives: presence or absence of that 1054
3.5.6 That as a subordinator (not a relative pronoun) 1056
4 The distinction between integrated and supplementary
relative clauses 1058
4.1 Major syntactic differences 1059
4.2 Meaning and use 1063
4.3 Linear position 1066
5 Infinitival relative clauses 1067
6 The fused relative construction 1068
6.1 Fused relatives as phrases, not clauses 1068
6.2 Fused relatives contrasted with open interrogatives 1070
6.3 Syntactic analysis 1073
6.4 Relative words in the fused construction 1074
7 Unbounded dependency constructions 1079
7.1 Definition and taxonomy 1079

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7.2 Gaps and antecedents 1082

7.3 Location of gaps 1088
7.4 Nested dependencies 1094
7.5 Parasitic gaps 1095