Korean relative clauses

Korean has no relative pronoun and no complementizer. A relative clause precedes its head noun and its verb carries an adnominal suffix, -(n)ɨn in the present, -n in the past and -l in the prospective; the relativized position is dropped together with its case marker, and this strategy relativizes subjects, direct objects, indirect objects and obliques. A genitive cannot be dropped: the possessive pronoun is retained, as in chaki-ij lä-ka chongmyəngha-n kɨ salam 'the man whose dog is smart', literally 'his dog is smart, the man'. The data are [KC77]'s.

References

• [KC77]

def Korean.relAdnominal : Relativizer

The adnominal suffix of a prenominal clause, -(n)ɨn, -n or -l: the relativized position is dropped from subjects through obliques, and at a genitive the possessive pronoun is retained.

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def Korean.relativizers : List Relativizer

The Korean relativizers.

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• Korean.relativizers = [Korean.relAdnominal]