Internally headed relative clauses occur only in languages manifesting null anaphora (that is, the use of null NPs in place of lexical pronouns etc. in most argument positions).
Standardized
IF there are internally headed relative clauses, THEN there will be null anaphora (i.e., pro drop).
Keywords
relative clause, internal (= replacive), anaphora, pro drop
In INTERNALLY HEADED relative clauses, the nominal which is understood as the head occurs, on the surface, in a position internal to the modifying clause. Downing (#679) calls such relative clauses ‘replacive’, Keenan (#1595) calls them ‘internal RelCs’, Gorbet (#1601) refers to them as to ‘headless relative clauses’ Gil (2000) and Cole himself refer to them as to ‘internally-headed’.
In INTERNALLY HEADED relative clauses, the nominal which is understood as the head occurs, on the surface, in a position internal to the modifying clause. Downing (#679) calls such relative clauses ‘replacive’, Keenan (#1595) calls them ‘internal RelCs’, Gorbet (#1601) refers to them as to ‘headless relative clauses’ Gil (2000) and Cole himself refer to them as to ‘internally-headed’.