Open AccessExternally and internally headed relative clauses in Marori
Author(s) -
I Wayan Arka
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
proceedings of the international conference on head-driven phrase structure grammar
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1535-1793
DOI - 10.21248/hpsg.2016.2
Subject(s) - relative clause , head (geology) , linguistics , dependent clause , mathematics , philosophy , geology , sentence , geomorphology
This paper discusses relative clauses (RCs) in Marori,showing that this language unusually has almost all of relative clausetypes, from headed/headless, externally/internally headed,single-/double-headed, to pre-/post-head, to attached/detachedRCs. Special attention is given to internally headed relative clauses(IHRC). It is argued that Marori IHRCs are of the restrictive ornon-maximalising type, which accounts for certain intriguingproperties, such as their indefiniteness constraints and thepossibility for RC stacking.