The semantics of multi-headed wh correlatives in Georgian
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22159657 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Natasha Thalluri (Harvard University Press, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5957 |
| Publication date | 2025-06-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2473-8689 • E-ISSN: 2473-8689 |
| Publisher | Linguistic Society of America (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3765/plsa.v10i1.5957 |
| OpenAlex | W4411668549 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
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
Georgian · Linguistics · Programming language · Computer Science · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |