Adjectival clauses with participle: comparison of Basque, Spanish and Czech

  • Karlos Cid Abasolo Departamento de Filología Románica, Filología Eslava y Lingüística General, UCM.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/RFRM.55229
Keywords: Reduced non-finite relative clauses, relativizable functions, left-branching, rightbranching.

Abstract

It is known that Basque is a non-Indo-European language, and that Romance and Slavic languages are Indo-European. Relative clauses are one of the aspects in which the Basque language has best preserved its non-Indo-European nature. In this paper, we focus on reduced relative clauses, i.e. with participle, which stress the uniqueness of Basque (for example, in the left-branching structure of its relative clauses as something typical of many non-Indo-European languages). The characteristics that Basque shares with the two other researched languages (Spanish and Czech) regarding reduced relative clauses are scarce.
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2017-02-10
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Cid Abasolo, K. (2017). Adjectival clauses with participle: comparison of Basque, Spanish and Czech. Revista de Filología Románica, 33(1), 9-22. https://doi.org/10.5209/RFRM.55229
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Vol. 33 No. 1 (2016)
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