TY - JOUR U1 - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed) A1 - Brandt, Patrick A1 - Fuß, Eric T1 - Most questionable pronouns: variation between das- vs. was-relatives in German JF - Linguistische Berichte N2 - The article investigates the conditions under which the w-relativizer was appears instead of the d-relativzer das in German relative clauses. Building on Wiese 2013, we argue that was constitutes the elsewhere case that applies when identification with the antecedent cannot be established by syntactic means via upward agreement with respect to phi-features. Corpuslinguistic results point to the conclusion that this is the case whenever there is no lexical nominal in the antecedent that, following Geach 1962 and Baker 2003, supplies a criterion of identity needed to establish sameness of reference between the antecedent and the relativizer. KW - Generative Transformationsgrammatik KW - Sprachstatistik KW - Indefinitpronomen KW - Relativpronomen KW - Deutsch KW - German KW - Frequency KW - Indefinite pronoun KW - Relative pronoun Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-30373 UN - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-30373 SN - 0024-3930 SS - 0024-3930 VL - 2014 IS - 239 SP - 297 EP - 329 PB - Buske CY - Hamburg ER -