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Resumption and gaps in English relative clauses: Relative acceptability

creates an illusion of ‘saving’

Author(s): Bethany Keffala

 Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics

Society (2013), pp. 140-154

Editors: Chundra Cathcart, I-Hsuan Chen, Greg Finley, Shinae Kang,

Clare S. Sandy, and Elise Stickles

Please contact BLS regarding any further use of this work. BLS retains

copyright for both print and screen forms of the publication. BLS may be

contacted via http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/bls/.

The Annual Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society  is published online

via eLanguage, the Linguistic Society of America's digital publishing platform.

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