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Publication details [#9821]

Wachtel, Tom. 1979. Nouns, relative clauses, and pragmatic control. Linguistic Inquiry 10 (3) : 511–514.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

grammatical control | noun | relative clause

Journal WWW

www.catchword.com/mitpress/00243892/contp1-1.htm

Annotation

W. adduces pragmatic evidence against the claim that 'the idiot' in 'The idiot called me up yesterday' (in response to 'Have you seen Algernon recently?') would be derived from an underlying nonrestrictive clause.