Arguments for the matching analysis of Hungarian lexically headed relatives

The aim of the present article is to provide both theoretical and empirical evidence to the effect that Hungarian lexically headed relative clauses can only be adequately analyzed by a so called Matching derivation, where the lexical nominal head does not originate inside the embedded clause, in contrast to Raising analyses. To support the above hypothesis, I will examine several reconstruction and case-related phenomena, along with an experiment aimed to support the unavailability of scopal reconstruction into relative clauses in Hungarian with empirical data from native speakers. The results of the experiment will be shown to support the above working hypothesis.