The semantics of multi-headed wh correlatives in Georgian
Existing accounts of Georgian relative clauses mention two relativization strategies, one involving the complementizer rom, and the other involving the relativizing clitic -c. While Foley (2013); Bhatt & Nash (2023) provide a syntactic account of these structures, their semantics remains unstudi...
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| Published in | Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America Vol. 10; no. 1; p. 5957 |
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| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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25.06.2025
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| Online Access | Get full text |
| ISSN | 2473-8689 2473-8689 |
| DOI | 10.3765/plsa.v10i1.5957 |
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| Summary: | Existing accounts of Georgian relative clauses mention two relativization strategies, one involving the complementizer rom, and the other involving the relativizing clitic -c. While Foley (2013); Bhatt & Nash (2023) provide a syntactic account of these structures, their semantics remains unstudied. In this paper I present novel data on preposed relative clauses in Georgian formed via the relativizing clitic -c, and argue for a correlative-like semantics of these structures along the lines Dayal 1996’s analysis of Hindi correlatives. Moreover, contra Bhatt & Nash (2023) I argue it is these multiple wh-romelic relative clauses rather than the multiple headed rom relative clauses that pattern like canonical correlatives in terms of definiteness effects, and their ability to license a pair-list interpretation. |
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| ISSN: | 2473-8689 2473-8689 |
| DOI: | 10.3765/plsa.v10i1.5957 |