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Matt,<br>
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This doesn't quite meet your definition, but ...<br>
<br>
Both Riau Indonesian (Gil 2000) and Singlish, aka Colloquial
Singaporean English (Gil 2003), have internally-headed relative
clauses, for example<br>
<br>
Lisa choose the house yesterday, Ah Tao buy that one<br>
'Ah Tao bought the house that Lisa chose yesterday'<br>
(Gil 2003 e.g. (49))<br>
<br>
I don't think I mentioned this anywhere in writing, but in both Riau
Indonesian and Singlish, the internally-headed relative seems —
based on naturalistic observations — to always occur in an initial,
topic- or subject-like position, as in the above example.<br>
<br>
Although this isn't actually a constraint on the role of the
coreferential argument in the matrix clause, what seems to be common
to the above and to the cases that have been cited so far in this
thread, is that they both reflect a preference for embedded clauses
to occur in prominent topic or subject positions.<br>
<br>
David<br>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"
lang="EN-US">Gil, David (2000)
"Riau Indonesian: A VO Language with Internally-Headed Relative
Clauses", <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Snippets</i> 1.</span><br>
<a name="OLE_LINK27"><span style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif" lang="EN-US"><br>
Gil,
David (2003) "English Goes Asian; Number and (In)definiteness in
the
Singlish Noun-Phrase", in F. Plank ed., <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Noun Phrase Structure in the Languages of Europe,</i>
Empirical
Approaches to Language Typology, Eurotyp 20-7, Mouton, Berlin
and New York,
467-514.</span></a><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 22/07/2019 09:30, Matthew Carroll
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Dear all,
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<div>I am curious about restrictions on arguments in matrix
clauses that are co-referential with those in subordinate
clauses.</div>
<div><br>
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<div>Restrictions on the role that a co-referential argument may
play in a subordinate clause are well established in the
literature (Keenan and Comrie 1977, and others). Rather I am
interested in restrictions that may apply to the role that
co-referential argument may play in the <i>matrix</i> clause.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>For example, in Ngkolmpu a Yam language spoken in West
Papua that I have been working on, there is a relative clause
strategy involving a right adjoined relative clause. The
co-referential argument may serve <i>any role in the
subordinate clause</i> but can only be the <i>absolutive
argument of the matrix clause.</i> </div>
<div> </div>
<div><span
style="text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"
lang="EN-GB">1.<span
style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times
New Roman"">
</span></span><span
style="text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"
lang="EN-GB">krar-w irepe pi
srampu [<sup>n</sup>top mi
bori ye]</span></div>
<div><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;text-align:justify">
dog</span><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;text-align:justify;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-caps:small-caps">-sg.erg</span><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;text-align:justify">
</span><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;text-align:justify">man</span><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;text-align:justify">
</span><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;text-align:justify;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-caps:small-caps">dist</span><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;text-align:justify">
</span><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;text-align:justify">he:will:bite:him</span><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;text-align:justify">
</span><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;text-align:justify">big</span><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;text-align:justify">
</span><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;text-align:justify;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-caps:small-caps">rel.abs
comp</span><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;text-align:justify">
</span><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;text-align:justify">is</span></div>
<div><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;text-align:justify">
'The dog
will bite that man </span><i
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;text-align:justify">who
is big</i><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;text-align:justify">’</span></div>
<div><span
style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"
lang="EN-GB"> <b>*</b></span></span><span
style="text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"
lang="EN-GB">’The dog, <i>who
is big</i>, will bite that man.’</span></div>
<div><br>
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<div>Example (1) can only be interpreted as 'the man who is big'
and never 'the dog who is big'. This has been confirmed
through careful and systematic elicitation on this topic and
confirmed by examples in my growing corpus (currently at about
1500 naturalistic utterances). </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Dixon (1977) notes similar restrictions in Yidiɲ. On page
323 of his grammar he posits the <span
style="font-size:11pt;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-caps:small-caps;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">coreferentiality
constraint</span>: "<i>There must be an NP common to the
main clause and subordinate clause, and it must be in
surface S or O function in each clause." </i></div>
<div><i><br>
</i></div>
<div>Unlike the Ngkolmpu example, this applies to both the
matrix NP and the subordinate NP which only applies to the
matrix NP. Yet, importantly for my purpose, does place a
restriction on the role of the matrix NP. I am curious to see
if people know of other examples of these kind of constraints
in matrix NPs? or perhaps there is a paper that I have missed
in my (rather brief) survey of the literature on the topic. <br>
<br>
Regards,</div>
<div>Matt</div>
<div><br>
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<div>Matthew J. Carroll</div>
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