스페인어 지시 한정사 제한 관계절 연구

Studies on the Spanish demonstratives adjectives in the restrictive relative clauses

In Spanish, the relative sentences are the combination of two sentences that share a common noun, that means that one of the sentences gives more information modifies or specifies the noun in common. There are two types of relative clauses: restrictive clauses and nonrestrictive clauses. In concrete, a restrictive relative clause provides information essential to completing the meaning of the antecedent and restricting its scope. But a nonrestrictive relative clause provides additional information, that is not essential to the meaning of the antecedent. It describes a proper noun or a noun that is identified and unique. In Spanish the demonstratives adjectives can be used in these two types of relative clauses. But it is impossible to the proper noun or the possessive adjectives. In this paper, we have examined that, according to Kayne (1994), the relative clauses are actually selected as complements by the definite article. In this point of view, the surface order is derived by movement of the noun to the specifier position of the relative clause. And we have proposed that the demonstrative adjectives in the relative clauses are derived from the Lexicon with the feature Specific Reference.