<div dir="ltr">Dear Juergen,<div>in my paper "Persistence and renewal in the relative pronoun paradigm: the case of Italian", Folia Linguistica Historica 26, 2005, 115-138, I discuss narrative relative clauses and their function in Old Italian. I suggest that the emergence and diffusion of relative pronoun <i>il quale</i> in Old Italian was modeled on the Latin "connecting relative" (Rosén) or relativischer Anschluss (Lehmann) . It was used as a device to enhance text cohesion..</div><div>Best</div><div>Anna</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Anna Giacalone Ramat<div>Professor Emerita of Linguistics</div><div>The University of Pavia </div><div>Academia Europaea</div><div>Honorary Member of the Societas Linguistica Europaea</div><div><br>Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici<br>Strada Nuova 65<br>I-27100-Pavia<br>tel. +39 0382 984486<br>email: <a href="mailto:annaram@univ.it" target="_blank">annaram@unipv.it</a><br><a href="https://www.academia.edu/34500598/CV_CURR" target="_blank">https://www.academia.edu/34500598/CV_CURR</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2018-05-08 21:10 GMT+02:00 Bohnemeyer, Juergen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jb77@buffalo.edu" target="_blank">jb77@buffalo.edu</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear colleagues -- I’m looking for any leads regarding both in-depth single-language and typological studies on a phenomenon one might refer to under the makeshift labels ‘narrative relative clauses’ or ‘eventive relative clauses’. I will stick here to the former label (NRCs), since the latter is more ambiguous. NRCs are a type of non-restrictive RCs that distinguish themselves from other kinds of non-restrictive RCs by standing in a narrative rhetorical relation to the matrix clause (or put differently, by advancing a narrative story line to which the matrix clause also contributes). Based on European languages, some subtypes could be distinguished based on (i) the “antecedent” of the RC - the matrix clause referent the RC picks up - and (ii) the expression of the semantic relation between the matrix and RC events:<br>
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• Antecedent is a participant of the matrix event; event relation implicit:<br>
Sally gave the cup to Floyd, who smashed it to pieces<br>
• Antecedent is the matrix event itself; event relation implicit:<br>
Sally gave the cup to Floyd, which irritated Sam<br>
• Antecedent is the matrix event itself; event relation explicit:<br>
Sally gave the cup to Floyd, whereupon Sam left the room in disgust<br>
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B and C are presumably structurally distinct from ordinary (non-restrictive) RCs. On the other hand, A-type NRCs are interesting for the form-meaning mismatch or semantic-pragmatic mismatch they involve. A more technical definition of NRCs might be as follows:<br>
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• Constructions involving a matrix clause and a dependent clause;<br>
• The dependent clause should share some of the language-specific properties of RCs that set them apart from other types of dependent clauses/predications in the particular languages;<br>
• The matrix clause event and the dependent clause event are causally related and/or spatio-temporally contiguous.<br>
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I fully expect that the pragmatic functions of NRCs can be partially or wholly fulfilled by other clause combination constructions that do not have the language-specific trappings of RCs. Such functionally related alternative means are very much part of the interest driving this investigation.<br>
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Thank you in advance for any leads on this topic! -- Best — Juergen<br>
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