Abstract
Abstract
The Relative Pronoun strategy is commonly used for relativization in European languages such as English – for
example: The woman [ who won the lottery ] is my neighbour. In
this strategy the head nominal (here the woman) is indicated inside the relative clause by a clause-initial
pronominal element (the relative pronoun, here who). The Relative Pronoun strategy has been characterized as an
exclusively European areal feature (e.g. Comrie 1998). This article describes this
strategy in more detail, as well as previous accounts of its distribution, and goes on to demonstrate that the same strategy is
also found in Nama, a Papuan language of southern New Guinea.
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