[Lingtyp] Any references on temporal relative clauses
Adam James Ross Tallman
ajrtallman at utexas.edu
Tue Dec 11 02:15:05 UTC 2018
Hey Jesus,
In Chacobo temporal frame adverbial expressions are coded with a
"relativization strategy" that takes a time of day noun and a deictic
motion verb. I used to think they were bona fide relative clauses, but its
probably better to think of them as clausal nominalizations.
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from my grammar on page 757.
Adam
On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 8:05 PM Randy J. LaPolla <randy.lapolla at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Dear Jesús,
> In Sino-Tibetan languages that is the most common pattern. Here are
> references on Mandarin (Sinitic) and Rawang (Tibeto-Burman) relative
> clauses, both of which include examples of the type you are looking for:
>
> LaPolla, Randy J. 2008b. Relative clause structures in the Rawang
> language. *Language and Linguistics* 9.4:797-812.
>
> www.ntu.edu.sg/home/randylapolla/Papers/LaPolla_2008_Relative_Clause_Structures_in_the_Rawang_Language.pdf
>
>
> LaPolla, Randy J. 2017. Noun-Modifying Clause Constructions in
> Sino-Tibetan Languages. In Yoshiko Matsumoto, Bernard Comrie, & Peter Sells
> (eds.), *Noun-Modifying Clause Constructions in Languages of Eurasia:
> Reshaping theoretical and geographical boundaries,* 91-103. Amsterdam,
> Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co.
>
> http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/randylapolla/Papers/LaPolla_2017_Noun-modifying_clause_constructions_in_Sino-Tibetan_languages.pdf
>
> Hope these are of use to you.
>
> All the best,
> Randy
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> *The Sino-Tibetan Languages, 2nd Edition (*2017)
>
> https://www.routledge.com/The-Sino-Tibetan-Languages-2nd-Edition/LaPolla-Thurgood/p/book/9781138783324
> *Sino-Tibetan Linguistics *(2018)
>
> https://www.routledge.com/Sino-Tibetan-Linguistics/LaPolla/p/book/9780415577397
>
>
>
>
>
> On 11 Dec 2018, at 8:19 AM, Microsoft.com Member <
> jesus_olguinmartinez at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> As you know in many languages temporal, locative, and manner adverbial
> clauses are structurally identical to relative clauses. This structural
> identity between relative clauses and adverbial clauses is not infrequent.
> As Thompson et al. (2007: 245) point out adverbial clauses expressing time,
> location, and manner can commonly be paraphrased, in many languages, “with
> a relative clause with a generic and relatively semantically empty head
> noun: time, place, and way/manner, respectively”.
>
> I send you this message because currently I am working on a final paper
> for a course I am taking that explores “temporal relatives in the world´s
> languages”, as can be seen in the examples in (1) and (2).
> *Kisi* (Niger-Congo/Mel; Childs 1995: 287)
> (1) ŋ̀ cò cììkìáŋ, *lɔ́ɔ́* ŋ̀
> cò hùnɔ́ɔ́-*ó*.
> 1pl.sbj aux meet time 2sg.sbj
> aux come-rel
> ʻWe will see you when you come.ʼ
>
> *Araki* (Austronesian/Oceanic: Vanuatu; François 2002: 182)
> (2) mo vari-a nunu
> 3sg.real take-3sg shadow
> ʻHe took the photo
>
> *lo dani* no-m̈am ta mo
> pa m̈is m̈audu ro.
> loc day poss-1exc.pl dad 3sg.real seq
> still live prog
> at the time our father was still aliveʼ
>
> What I have found so far is that this construction seems to be very
> frequent in many African (e.g. Eton, Koyra Chiini, Jalkunan, Fongbe, etc)
> and Oceanic languages (e.g. Daakaka, Toqabaqita, 'Are'are, etc.). I was
> wondering if you are aware of:
>
> 1. any paper(s) that has explore this type of construction.
> 2. any languages that have this type of construction.
>
>
> Any help will be appreciated!
>
> Best,
> --
> Jesús Olguín Martínez
> Ph.D. Student, Dept. of Linguistics
> *University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)*
> http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/people/jesús-olguín-martínez
>
> *References*
> Childs, G. Tucker. 1995. *A Grammar of Kisi: A Southern Atlantic Language*
> . Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
> François, Alexandre. 2002. *Araki: A Disappearing Language of Vanuatu*.
> (Pacific Linguistics, 522.) Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian
> Studies, Australian National University.
> Thompson, Sandra, Longacre, Robert & Hwang, Shin. 2007. Adverbial Clauses.
> In *Language Typology and Syntactic Description, Volume I**I: Complex
> Constructions*, Timothy Shopen (ed.), 237-300. Cambridge: Cambridge
> University Press.
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Adam J.R. Tallman
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