ABSTRACT
In Cinque it is proposed that the different types of relative constructions found across languages derive from one and the same structure, whether they involve a raising or a matching derivation. In Italian, the element resuming the "correlative" relative is normally a run-of-the-mill clitic, actually the usual resumptive clitic associated with the Clitic Left Dislocated DP that contains the relative clause. The phrase directly modified by the relative clause is the external Head of the relative clause, which is matched inside the relative clause by an identical phrase. Depending on the language, the 'left dislocated' DP containing the correlative clause may apparently be either an English-type Left dislocation/Hanging Topic, or a German-type Contrastive Left Dislocation, or a Romance-type Clitic Left Dislocation. To judge from the substantive lists of languages with correlatives given in de de Vries, Bhatt, and Liptak it seems that there may be no single language for which correlatives are the only relativization strategy available.
