COLLOQUIUM-A compositional semantics for relative pronouns

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This "poster" (provided in the form of a handout and a 5-minute lightning talk) offers a new compositional semantics for relative pronouns, taking into account their morphological relation to interrogative pronouns (syncretism or containment). I argue that relative pronouns are derived from interrogative ones by adding a R(elative)-particle, semantically a focus-sensitive particle (akin to Rooth's squiggle or Hagstrom/Cable's Q-particle) which, together with a relative complementizer, participates in establishing the semantic relation between the nominal head and its relative-clause-internal representation, as entertained in the matching analysis.

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