On Some Welsh Unbounded Dependency Constructions

Robert D. Borsley · Open Access at Essex (University of Essex) · 2008

An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Fifth Celtic Linguistics Conference in Gregynog from September 7th-9th, 2007.I am grateful to Bob Morris Jones for help with the data and to Ivan Sag for helpful comments.Any bad bits are my responsibility.2 Adjunct relative clauses allow the wh-words lle 'where', pryd 'when' and pam 'why' as fillers.The following from Borsley, Tallerman and Willis (2007: chapter 4) illustrates the first of these:(i) yr ardal lle gafodd ei fagu the district where get.PAST.3SG3SGM raise 'the district where he was brought up' Essex Research Reports in LinguisticsVol. 57.

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