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- Title
Structural Case Assignment in Pashto Relative Clauses.
- Authors
Masood, Talat; Rahman, Mujib
- Abstract
The presence of resumptive nominals in some instances and their absence in others make Pashto relative clauses challenging, when seen in the context of structural Case assignment, which requires an agree relation between a functional head and a nominal. However, in Pashto relative clauses, we have to deal with the presence/ absence of a nominal in the same structure/derivation. Added to this is the fact that the whole relative clause along with the nominal can be considered a determiner phrase (DP), and the relativized nominal, in most cases, is at the left-most side of the clause. A question arises: How does the Pashto relative clause get its Case assigned and from which functional category? Among the three well-known approaches to relative clauses, namely, the head external analysis (HEA), the matching analysis (MA), and the head raising analysis (HRA), we adopt the matching analysis (MA) for the structure of Pashto relative clauses. We propose a modification that whereas MA believes in deletion of the internal nominal inside CP with the external nominal through identity, we assume that the internal nominal inside the CP does not delete, rather, it gets phonetically null in some cases and otherwise in others. For structural/abstract Case assignment, it adopts the minimalist notion of the structural Case being the result of Φ-feature agreement between a functional category and a nominal.
- Subjects
PASHTO language; MINIMALIST theory (Communication); ACCUSATIVE case (Grammar); LANGUAGE &; languages; TERMS &; phrases
- Publication
Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (Pakistan), 2014, Vol 22, Issue 2, p85
- ISSN
1024-0829
- Publication type
Article