Open AccessAppendix: relative clause questionnaire
Author(s) -
N. N.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
zas papers in linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1435-9588
DOI - 10.21248/zaspil.53.2010.401
Subject(s) - relative clause , object (grammar) , linguistics , sentence , checklist , subject (documents) , adjunct , set (abstract data type) , swahili , dependent clause , variety (cybernetics) , computer science , bantu languages , grammar , psychology , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , cognitive psychology , programming language , philosophy , library science
This questionnaire is intended as an aid to eliciting different relative clause types – restrictive, non-restrictive, free, cleft. We have taken care to include examples where the head plays a variety of grammatical functions in the relative clause (subject, object, indirect object, possessor, adjunct). We have also taken care to include examples where the relative clause is in different positions in the sentence: initial, medial and extraposed. The questionnaire is intended as a guide, only, as every language will have its own set of possibilities and complications. At the end of the questionnaire is a checklist, as well as some illustrative examples in English and Swahili of the basic relative clause types. While we had Bantu languages in mind in devising the questionnaire, we hope it could also be useful to linguists with an interest in other languages.