Some Thoughts on 'Que': Description, Theory, and L2.

To study the alleged ambiguity of bare "que," it is necessary to contrast the "bare que hypothesis"--a prepositionless "que" is always a complementizer and never a relative pronoun--to the "unique que hypothesis"--que is a complementizer even when preceded by a preposition. Argumentation favors the bare que hypothesis, a hypothesis that also demonstrates that the determiner in prepositionless art+que is the indicator of a partial antecedent.(Author/VWL)