Languages with headless relative clauses tend to have powerful and productive patterns of nominalization which are at least superficially similar to relative clauses.
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IF there are headless relative clauses, THEN there is a productive pattern of nominalization.
1. The HEADLESS RELATIVE CLAUSE is characterized by three properties:A. it is a relative clause functionally and semantically;B. it lacks a syntactic head noun;C. a lexical instance of the semantic head appears as a noun (or more substantially expanded NP) in the subordinate clause. 2. Downing (#679) calls such relative clauses ‘replacive’, Keenan (#1595) calls them ‘internal RelCs’, Gil (2000) and Cole (#1596, 1597) refer to them as to ‘internally-headed’.
1. The HEADLESS RELATIVE CLAUSE is characterized by three properties:A. it is a relative clause functionally and semantically;B. it lacks a syntactic head noun;C. a lexical instance of the semantic head appears as a noun (or more substantially expanded NP) in the subordinate clause. 2. Downing (#679) calls such relative clauses ‘replacive’, Keenan (#1595) calls them ‘internal RelCs’, Gil (2000) and Cole (#1596, 1597) refer to them as to ‘internally-headed’.