The raising analysis of relative clauses: A reply to Borsley

Borsley (1997) criticizes the raising analysis of relative clauses revived by Kayne (1994) in the framework of antisymmetry theory. Most of his remark s concern the analysis of English headed relative clauses. This article pre sents a revised version of Kayne's proposal that provides an answer to thes e criticisms. It is argued that the raising approach is indeed tenable and that the analysis of this empirical domain is fully consistent with the res trictiveness of the antisymmetry theory.