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Relativization strategies: NP accessibility in Welsh

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Maggie Tallerman
Maggie Tallerman
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School of English, University of Durham
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This paper is concerned with strategies for relative clause formation, both in the universal and language-specific sense. It builds on the pioneering work of Keenan & Comrie (1977) and proposes some extensions to this work. The basic issues addressed here concern what exactly ‘case-coding’ strategies in relative clause formation are, why languages should use such strategies, and what form the strategies can take. Language-specific illustration is given from Modern Welsh, a language which exhibits some relativization strategies not discussed by Keenan and Comrie, but which nonetheless broadly supports their proposals.

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , September 1990 , pp. 291 - 314
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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