Head Position and Internally Headed Relative Clauses

Abstract

This article examines the phenomenon of HEAD MOVEMENT in internally headed relative clauses (IHRCs). Most theorists working in a transformational framework consider the internal head to move to an external position. I show that in some cases, head movement to an external position need not take place; an internal head may move but remain within the sentence itself. I show that this movement of the head to a sentence-internal position is a consequence of (1) the quantificational nature of IHRCs and (2) the mapping hypothesis of Diesing (1990, 1992a,b).*