Movement and Non-Movement in Hindi-Urdu Correlatives

Correlatives are a relativization strategy involving a two-clause structure. The correlative clause specifies a referent which is then referred to by a demonstrative in the main clause.

[[jo kitaab]i sale-par hai], [Maya [us kitaab]i-ko khariid-eg-i].

[[REL book] sale-on be.PRES] [Maya [DEM book]-DOM buy-FUT-F.SG]

'Maya will buy the book that is on sale.'

This paper considers movement in correlative constructions in Hindi-Urdu, with respect to the position of the head internal to the correlative clause, as well as the position of the correlative clause in the sentence. The latter has been extensively discussed in the literature, and the current proposal argues in favour of base-generation (Srivastav 1991, Dayal 1996) over a movement analysis. (Mahajan 2000, Bhatt 2003). The internal structure of the correlative clause has not been systematically studied. Restrictions on movement and intervention are used to argue for a null-headed relative clause analysis, with obligatory CP-internal relativization movement of the head of the correlative.