Proceedings of the 45th International Philological Conference (IPC 2016)
Session: Grammar and Lexicon
1 articles
Proceedings Article
Russian Adversative Conjunctions under Asymmetric Relativisation
Daniel Tiskin
We point out the differences between the Russian conjunctions i 'and', a and no 'but' as regards their ability to conjoin relative clauses: a is unacceptable if relativisation takes place across-the-board, but is grammatical if the second conjunct contains a resumptive pronoun in the trace position....