Drawing on a wide range of languages, Cinque argues that all relative clause types derive from a single, double-headed, structure.

Guglielmo Cinque is Professor of Linguistics at Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

Introduction; 1. Preliminaries; 2. Deriving the cross-linguistically attested types of restrictive/maximalizing relative clauses from a double-headed structure; 3. Deriving the other types of relative clauses from a double-headed structure; 4. 'Strategies' for the realization of the internal head; 5. Some residual questions; Conclusion; Appendix. Possible evidence for the existence of non-'raising' derivations.