Abstract
This paper shows that free relatives in Pashto are actually headed relative clauses, with the consequence that a single structure underlies the apparent diversity of relative clauses in the language. The data strongly suggest that the wh-word of free relatives is not in Spec of CP, but is entirely outside the relative clause, heading the apparently headless relative. Thus, the Head Hypothesis of Bresnan and Grimshaw (1978) is a more appropriate analysis of Pashto relative clauses than is the Comp Hypothesis of Groos and van Riemsdijk (1981). While it is able to maintain a headed structure for free relatives, Kayne's (1994) raising analysis of relative clauses offers a further advantage by transparently deriving some otherwise puzzling distributional correlations among wh-words in the language.
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