Factive relative clauses in Pulaar
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Drawing from Kayne (1994a), this chapter shows that Headed Relative Clauses and Factive
Clauses in Pulaar are built from similar structures. Both display word order similarities, and
in each case the complementizer, which is homophonous with the determiner, agrees with
the (null or overt) head NP in Spec,CP. The verb form is also the same in Headed Relatives
and Factive Relatives, and it undergoes the same agreement pattern. Furthermore, Headed
Relatives and Factives in Pulaar both exhibit island constraints such that extraction out of
either construction is impossible; this indicates that they all involve movement of some sort.
The difference between these constructions is that the Headed Relative has an overt head
noun whereas Factives have null head nouns.
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