Amount Relatives

Abstract

It is argued here that English contains a distinct class of relative clauses called amount relatives. On the surface, these are very much like restrictive relative clauses, but they have a syntax and semantics which align them more with comparatives than with restrictive relatives. By positing this new class, we can account in a general way for some apparently exceptional behavior of certain relative clauses. Issues discussed include relativization of the logical subject of a sentence which has undergone There -Insertion (such as every man there is), as well as the interaction of idiomatic expressions and relative clause formation.

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