Subject-Object asymmetries in relative clauses: An investigation into three new empirical domains.

This paper investigates subject and object restrictive relative clauses and the role played by the CP layer in such extractions. Our point of departure is the well-known observation reported in many studies across a variety of languages and in different linguistic subfields that there is an asymmetry between subject and object extraction in relative clauses. We intend to broaden the field of investigation including three empirical domains in which the asymmetry has not been observed yet. The three domains of investigation are: (i) language impairment due to Alzheimer´s Disease, (ii) synchronic, and (iii) diachronic microvariation across Italian dialects.