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Hoyne, Mícheál, “Structural ambiguity and resumptive pronouns: the pragmatics of the transitive ‘direct’ and ‘indirect’ relatives in Modern Irish”, Journal of Celtic Linguistics 17 (2016): 31–95.

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“Structural ambiguity and resumptive pronouns: the pragmatics of the transitive ‘direct’ and ‘indirect’ relatives in Modern Irish”
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Journal of Celtic Linguistics 17 (2016)
Rodway, Simon (ed.), Journal of Celtic Linguistics 17 (2016).
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17
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31–95
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On the basis of a corpus of transitive relative clauses from authentic texts this paper seeks to shed light on the 'direct' and 'indirect' transitive relative clauses in Modern Irish. 'Direct' transitive relative clauses in Irish are sometimes structurally ambiguous, that is, it is sometimes unclear whether the antecedent is the subject or the direct object of the relative clause. The present paper seeks to identify how such ambiguous clauses are correctly interpreted. It is frequently claimed that the 'indirect' relative is used to disambiguate potentially ambiguous object-relative constructions. This paper argues, however, that the use of the indirect relative is better explained by accessibility theory. The claim is that the 'indirect' relative is used when the antecedent is less accessible at the point at which it is reactivated in the relative clause.
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Modern Irish
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Dennis Groenewegen
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