The aim of this paper is to show how language documentation, in the form of a large corpus of spontaneous data, can give crucial insights about relativization, and modify some of the assumptions found by elicitation and a limited use of texts. This study shows that relativization in Siwi, an endangered Berber language spoken in Egypt, involves several constructions whose formal features depend on the grammatical role of the head noun, as well as on the restrictive vs. descriptive modification realized by the relative clause.
Relativization in Siwi
SCHIATTARELLA, Valentina
2014-01-01
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The aim of this paper is to show how language documentation, in the form of a large corpus of spontaneous data, can give crucial insights about relativization, and modify some of the assumptions found by elicitation and a limited use of texts. This study shows that relativization in Siwi, an endangered Berber language spoken in Egypt, involves several constructions whose formal features depend on the grammatical role of the head noun, as well as on the restrictive vs. descriptive modification realized by the relative clause.File in questo prodotto:
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