More circumambience in syntax

πŸ•‘ 2 min β€’ πŸ‘€ Thomas Graf β€’ πŸ“† November 14, 2019 in Discussions β€’ 🏷 subregular, syntax, movement, complementizer agreement, relative clauses, English, French

This is a very short follow-up to my previous post on circumambient patterns in syntax. I just realized that there’s another, very robust example that makes all the cases look even more mundane: complementizer alternations in English relative clauses.


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