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In X-bar theory, what is N' in the NP 'whichever candidate wins'?
Moving to a second phase :) of dealing with the question – in a comment to the other answer, JK2 cites an analysis of free relatives that proceeds in cycles, following some version of Chomsky's later ...
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In X-bar theory, what is N' in the NP 'whichever candidate wins'?
The example has been misanalysed in the question.
Your question is about the object of the verb "support" in a structure "He will support X", with X = "whichever candidate ...
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