Language Acquisition by Maria Teresa Guasti

Author:Maria Teresa Guasti [Guasti, Maria Teresa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2017-03-02T00:00:00+00:00

14.  Adult Serbo-Croatian allows resumptive pronouns in some structures, but children's use of resumptive pronouns does not always fit the adult pattern.

15.  This is a simplification, since there are different types of resumptive pronouns, one of which is likely compatible with Ā-movement (see, e.g., Georgopoulos 1991). Hence, the occurrence of resumptive relatives is not necessarily a decisive argument in favor of a nonmovement analysis for RCs, according to Goodluck and Stojanović (1996) and Pérez-Leroux (1995).

16.  Within the head-raising analysis of RCs, the idea that resumptive RCs do not feature movement is hard to maintain. For present purposes, we will still assume the classical analysis of resumptive RCs. For discussion, see Cecchetto and Donati (2015).

17.  Recall that in French subject RCs, the complementizer qui ‘that’ indicates that movement through the intermediate CP has occurred. Since French-speaking children produce subject RCs, we could claim that children derive subject RCs through movement of an empty relative pronoun (along with the relative head). However, French has a structure called the pseudorelative, illustrated in (i), that looks like a subject RC.

(i) J'ai vu Marie qui embrassait Jean.

I saw Marie that hugged Jean

‘I saw Marie hugging Jean.’

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