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Internal Relative Clause

Internal Relative Clause

An internal relative clause is a relative clause whose head noun phrase occurs within the relative clause itself.

This type of relative clause, which occurs only in SOV languages, takes the place of a regular noun phrase argument in the main clause.

(Imbabura Quechua)

[kan

kwitsa

-man

kwintu

-ta

willa

-shka

-ka]

llapa

you

girl

to

story

ACCUSATIVE

tell

NOMINALIZER

TOPIC

very

This example means either ‘The girl to whom you told the story is very pretty’ or ‘The story that you told to the girl is very pretty’.
  • sumaj -mi
  • pretty VALIDATOR
Page/s: 143
Source: Keenan 1985

Keenan, Edward L. 1985. "Relative clauses." In Shopen 1985c

Page/s: 145–146
Source: Comrie 1989

Comrie, Bernard. 1989.Language universals and linguistic typology. 2nd edition. Chicago: University of Chicago.

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