Re: Resumptive pronoun?
| From: | Tom Tadfor Little <tom@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 27, 2001, 3:04 |
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Roger Mills wrote:
>Seems to me these are most likely to occur in languages whose relative
>marker (1)is invariant, serving only to indicate that its clause modifies
>the preceding, or (2) can only relativize certain grammatical roles.
Nice summary!
>Hebrew IIRC, and Kash definitely, are examples of #1
Add Iltârer to the list:
There are no relative pronouns in Iltârer. Rather, an uniflected particle,
nan, is used to introduce all relative clauses. The clause invariably
contains a
third-person pronoun referring to the antecedent in the primary clause,
even when a different person might be called for by sense or idiom.
Petane Cinsirâ a sentanes nan mimer âchâ mimetes.
Love-2d.vivid.volit. Cinsir-caus. thou-caus. person-caus.pl. rel.part.
write-3d.vivid.vol. they-caus. book-abs.pl.
Cinsir loves people who write books.
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