<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Dear Zahid,<div><br></div><div>In Salishan languages, demonstratives regularly introduce constructions that are interpreted as headless relative clauses: </div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Lushootseed</div><div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>p’q’acəxʷ tiʔiɬ ʔəsčəbaʔəd<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>p’q’ac=axʷ<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>tiʔiɬ<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>ʔas–čəbaʔ–t</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>rotten.wood=now<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>dist<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>stat–backpack–ics</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>‘What he backpacks is a rotten log.’<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>(Martha Lamont, Pheasant and Raven; Beck and Hess 2014: 65, line 260)</div><div><br></div><div><i>tiʔiɬ ʔəsčəbaʔəd</i> ‘what he backpacks’ is formed by placing the demonstrative <i>tiʔiɬ</i> 'distal' before a finite clause <i>ʔəsčəbaʔəd</i> ’s/he packs it on his/her back’. This structure is described to some extent in Beck (2002, 2013) for Lushootseed and the structure is recognizable (though not always described in these terms) in grammars of other languages in the family. I think that this also occurs frequently in Wakashan and Tsimshianic languages as well.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>David</div><div><br></div><div>References</div><div><br></div><div><div>Beck, David. 2002. The typology of parts of speech systems: The markedness of adjectives. New York: Routledge.</div><div>Beck, David. 2013. Uni-directional flexibility and the noun-verb distinction in Lushootseed. In Jan Rijkhoff & Eva van Lier (eds.), Flexible word classes: A typological study of underspecified parts-of-speech, 185–220. Oxford: Oxford University Press.</div><div>Beck, David & Thom Hess. 2014. Tellings from Our Elders: Lushootseed syəyəhub. Volume 1, Snohomish texts. Vancouver: UBC Press.</div></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Oct 20, 2024, at 6:00 AM, lingtyp-request@listserv.linguistlist.org wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div>Send Lingtyp mailing list submissions to<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org<br><br>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>https://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lingtyp<br>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>lingtyp-request@listserv.linguistlist.org<br><br>You can reach the person managing the list at<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>lingtyp-owner@listserv.linguistlist.org<br><br>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br>than "Re: Contents of Lingtyp digest..."<br><br><br><br>Message: 3<br>Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 09:33:47 +0000<br>From: Zahid Akter <Zahid_Akter@outlook.com><br>To: LINGTYP LINGTYP <lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org><br>Subject: [Lingtyp] Demonstratives as nominalizers<br>Message-ID:<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><OSBPR01MB198937C2E734F3152C38A28F94422@OSBPR01MB1989.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"<br><br>Dear Typologists,<br><br>I?m looking for languages where demonstratives function as nominalizers. If you are aware of any such cases, I would greatly appreciate your references.<br><br>Best regards,<br>Zahid<br><br><br><br>Sent from Outlook<http://aka.ms/weboutlook><br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/lingtyp/attachments/20241020/e3542857/attachment-0001.htm><br><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>