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9.1 General Principles of Design and the Syntax-Phonology Divide 9.1 General Principles of Design and the Syntax-Phonology Divide
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9.2 Swiss Relatives Revisited 9.2 Swiss Relatives Revisited
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9.2.1 The Analysis in Van Riemsdijk 9.2.1 The Analysis in Van Riemsdijk
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9.2.2 Locative Relatives 9.2.2 Locative Relatives
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9.2.3 Aboutness Relatives: Where Is the Variable? 9.2.3 Aboutness Relatives: Where Is the Variable?
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9.2.3.1 What is Aboutness? 9.2.3.1 What is Aboutness?
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9.2.3.2 The Possessive Strategy 9.2.3.2 The Possessive Strategy
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9.2.3.3 The Locative Strategy 9.2.3.3 The Locative Strategy
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9.2.3.4 Swiss German: The Silent Locative 9.2.3.4 Swiss German: The Silent Locative
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9.2.4 Summary 9.2.4 Summary
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9.3 Some Speculations about Identity Avoidance 9.3 Some Speculations about Identity Avoidance
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9.3.1 *XX in Grammar and in Nature 9.3.1 *XX in Grammar and in Nature
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9.3.2 Violability of Principles of Organization 9.3.2 Violability of Principles of Organization
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Notes Notes
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References References
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9 Identity Avoidance: OCP Effects in Swiss Relatives
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Published:May 2008
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Abstract
This chapter examines identity avoidance and the “Obligatory Contour Principle” (OCP) in phonology, focusing on syntactic problems raised by headed relative clauses in Swiss German. It discusses the properties of a range of headed relative-clause constructions in Swiss German and considers three major subclasses: resumptive relative clauses, “aboutness” relative clauses, and locative relative clauses. It argues that resumptive pronouns in Swiss relative clauses manifest behavior similar to clitics. Clitic movement, normally optional, must apply to feed deletion. The chapter also looks at the annihilation of the correlative element either by haplology or the Avoid Pronoun Principle, which it calls the “kamikaze conspiracy.” A further ingredient of this conspiracy is the Doubly Filled COMP Filter, which constitutes a “syntactic reflex” of the OCP.
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