Study Group on Relative Clauses (9/2001)

An informal study group on relative clauses was organized on September 29, 2001 (Sat) at 2pm in QT502, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The discussion was held by Paul Law from Freie Universita"t, Berlin.

Paul received his undergraduate training in linguistics from UCLA and obtained his doctoral degree from MIT with a thesis on the effects of head movement on theories of subjacency and proper government. He has written extensively on syntactic theory and the comparative syntax of Germanic and Romance languages. His publications have focused on serial verbs in African and Sinitic languages, the existential construction, questions and relative clauses. He is currently a researcher at the Institute of English Philology, Freie Universita"t, Berlin.

Inquiries: Sze-Wing Tang (sw.tang@polyu.edu.hk)

must-read paper:

• Law, Paul (2001) Some issues in English and Chinese relative clauses

some helpful reading materials:

• Aoun, Joseph, and Audrey Li (2001) Essays on the representational and derivational nature of grammar: the diversity of wh-constructions 'Part II: Relativization: derivations and structures' (NB: draft, subject to further changes)
  Table of contents
  Chapter 4: Relativization- Head-initial relative constructions (revised)
  Chapter 5: Relativization- Head-final relative constructions
  Chapter 6: Adjunction structures and derivations
  Chapter 7: Typology of relative clauses
  
• Del Gobbo, Francesca (to appear) Appositives schmappositives in Chinese. In UCI Working Papers in Linguistics vol. 7, ed. Maki Irie and Hajime Ono. Irvine: ILSA.
  
• Simpson, Andrew (to appear) On the status of 'modifying' DE and the structure of the Chinese DP. In On the Formal Way to Chinese Languages, ed. Sze-Wing Tang and Chen-Sheng Liu. Stanford: CSLI.
  
• Zhang, Niina (2001) Short movement of relativization
  
• Zhang, Niina (2001) On the absence of nonrestrictive relatives in Chinese
  
• Zhang, Niina (2001) The interactions between the relative D and its external D in Chinese
  
• Zhang, Niina (2001) Representing specificity by the internal order of indefinites

(Latest update: November 20, 2001)