[Lingtyp] Relativization

[Susanne Michaelis]

Hi Jeff,

Check APiCS chapters 92-94 where quite a few creole/contact languages 
(mostly, but not only with European lexifiers) show the relative pronoun 
strategy described by Comrie & Kuteva (2005):

http://apics-online.info/parameters/92#2/13.8/10.0

http://apics-online.info/parameters/93#2/13.8/10.0

http://apics-online.info/parameters/94#2/13.8/5.0

Best,

Susanne


Am 3/19/18 um 1:26 AM schrieb Jeff Siegel:
>
> Greetings:
>
> In the description of relativization in WALS (features 122A and 123A), 
> the relative pronoun strategy is shown to stand out “as being 
> typically European since it is not found in Indo-European languages 
> spoken outside Europe, and is exceptional more generally outside 
> Europe” (Comrie & Kuteva 2013). This strategy is defined as follows:
>
> “[T]he position relativized is indicated inside the relative clause by 
> means of a clause-initial pronominal element, and this pronominal 
> element is case-marked (by case or by an adposition) to indicate the 
> role of the head noun within the relative clause.” (Comrie & Kuteva 2013)
>
> The only language outside the European area shown to use this strategy 
> is Acoma, Keresan language of New Mexico.
>
> Could anyone lead me to examples of the relative pronoun strategy used 
> in other languages outside Europe? Also, could anyone provide such 
> examples from Acoma or related languages? (I can’t seem to find any in 
> the descriptions of Keresan languages that I have examined.)
>
> Reference:
>
> Bernard Comrie, Tania Kuteva. 2013. Relativization on Subjects. In: 
> Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.). /The World Atlas of 
> Language Structures Online./ Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for 
> Evolutionary Anthropology.
> (Available online at http://wals.info/chapter/122, Accessed on 
> 2018-03-19.)
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff
>
> Emeritus Professor Jeff Siegel
>
> Linguistics, School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
>
> University of New England
>
> Armidale, NSW 2351
>
> Australia
>
> https://www.une.edu.au/staff-profiles/bcss/jsiegel
>
>
>
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