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  <Title>Pied-Piping in Relative Clauses: Syntax and Compositional Semantics based on Synchronous Tree Adjoining Grammar</Title>
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1 Introduction
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In relative clauses, the wh relative pronoun can be embedded in a larger phrase, as in (1) and (2). In such examples, we say that the larger phrase containing the wh-word has PIED-PIPED along with the wh-word.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1">  (1) a boy [ [whose brother]i Mary hit ti ] (2) a boy [[whose brother's friend]i Mary hit ti]  In this paper, using a similar syntactic analysis for wh pied-piping as in Han (2002) and further developed in Kallmeyer and Scheffler (2004), I propose a compositional semantics for relative clauses of the sort illustrated in (1) and (2), based on Synchronous Tree Adjoining Grammar (STAG). The two main components of my proposal are that (i) the semantic tree representing the logical form of a wh relative pronoun provides a generalized quantifier, and (ii) the semantic composition of the pied-piped material and the wh-word is achieved through adjoining of the former onto the latter in the semantics. Although TAG semantics for relative clauses based on flat semantics have been proposed before (Han, 2002; Kallmeyer, 2003), no STAG-based analysis exists, as far as I know.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> In section 2, I introduce the framework of STAG and STAG-based compositional semantics and clarify my assumptions. In section 3, I present my analysis of relative clauses and pied-piping. I extend the proposed analysis to relative clauses in which wh-word is in a PP and those in which no pied-piping has taken place in section 4.</Paragraph>
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