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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Free relative''' is [[relative clause]] that occurs without an antecedent.<br />
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=== Example ===<br />
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the subject in (i), ''who finishes first'', is a free relative.<br />
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(i) [who finishes first] wins the prize<br />
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Usually one assumes that free relatives are NPs with an empty head noun: [<sub>NP</sub> 0 [<sub>S</sub> ''who finishes first'']].<br />
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=== Link ===<br />
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[http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Free+relative&lemmacode=758 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]<br />
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=== References ===<br />
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* Smits, R.J.C. 1989. ''The relative and cleft constructions of the Germanic and Romance languages,'' doct. diss. KUB, Tilburg, Dordrecht: Foris, 1988.<br />
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