Basque relative clauses

Basque has one relative-clause strategy. The clause precedes its head, the relativized position is left empty, and the juncture is marked by the invariable suffix -n, as in emakumeari liburua eman dion gizona 'the man who has given the book to the woman'. It relativizes subjects, direct objects and indirect objects, the three positions cross-referenced on the verb; the paper offers Basque as the language whose cut-off falls exactly at the indirect object, and records no data for the lower positions. The data are [KC77]'s.

References

• [KC77]

def Basque.relN : Relativizer

The prenominal clause closed by the suffix -n leaves the relativized position empty and relativizes subjects, direct objects and indirect objects.

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def Basque.relativizers : List Relativizer

The Basque relativizers.

Equations

• Basque.relativizers = [Basque.relN]