German relative clauses #
German has two relative-clause strategies, the paper's opening illustration of a language with more than one. The relative pronoun der, die, das declines for case and introduces a postnominal clause, as in der Mann, der in seinem Büro arbeitet 'the man who is working in his study'; it relativizes subjects through genitives, and objects of comparison cannot be relativized. The participial construction precedes its head, as in der in seinem Büro arbeitende Mann 'the man who is working in his study', and relativizes subjects only. The data are [KC77]'s.
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The relative pronoun der, die, das declines for the case of the relativized position and relativizes subjects through genitives.
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The prenominal participial construction leaves the relativized position empty and relativizes subjects only.
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The German relativizers.