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Andere: Relativisation out of Temporal Adjunct Clauses in Serbian

This research deals with relativisation out of temporal adjunct clauses in Serbian. Temporal adjunct clauses are considered to be strong island, and extraction of relative wh-words out of such clauses usually results in ungrammatical structures. However, it appears that Serbian might allow such constructions without the need of pragmatically forced contexts to create a grammatical sentence. There are two possible analyses of this problem: movement analysis and base-generation with binding and resumption analysis. Arguments for both analyses will be presented and cross-linguistic comparison with other languages will also be shown. Additionally, the aim of this research is to establish empirical evidence before favouring either analysis.

This research looks at whether relativisation out of temporal adjunct clauses happens through movement of the wh-word from inside the temporal clause to its specCP position, or if the wh-word is base-generated at the specCP position of the temporal adjunct which is coindexed with a null pronoun in the object position of the temporal clause. The sentence in Serbian which is used as an example is:

Cipele [koje_i] [kad nosim _i], bole me noge.
The shoes [that], [when I wear them], my feet hurt.

The sentence in English becomes ungrammatical once the object of wear, "them", is dropped, which not the case in Serbian. The relative pronoun "koje" seems to be extracted from the temporal adjunct clause, which would be a violation of the adjunct island constraint, but the sentence is grammatical.

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Tag: 14.11.2025
Anfangszeit: 16:15
Dauer: 00:30
Raum: M17.23

Sprache: en

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