Hebrew relative clauses #
Modern Hebrew forms its postnominal relative clauses with the complementizer she-, in two ways. With the relativized position left empty, she- relativizes subjects and direct objects. With a personal pronoun in the relativized position, the strategy Keenan and Comrie take as the characteristic Semitic one, it relativizes everything from direct objects down to objects of comparison: ha-isha she-David natan la et ha-sefer 'the woman that David gave the book to', with the pronoun in la 'to her'. The direct object is shared between the two, subjects do not retain a pronoun, and relative clauses on objects of comparison are only marginally acceptable. The data are Keenan and Comrie's; Sichel's distinction between the optional resumptive of direct objects, a bound pronoun, and the obligatory resumptive of prepositional objects, a movement copy, is the matter of the studies of resumption.
Main definitions #
Hebrew.relShe,Hebrew.relativizers: the relativizer she-.
References #
The complementizer she-: the relativized position is left empty at the subject, left empty or filled by a personal pronoun at the direct object, and filled by a personal pronoun from the indirect object down to the object of comparison.
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Instances For
The relativizers.