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Light-headed relative clauses in Teramano
- Source: Studies in Language. International Journal sponsored by the Foundation “Foundations of Language”, Volume 45, Issue 4, Nov 2021, p. 921 - 937
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- 17 May 2020
- 17 Jun 2020
- 09 Dec 2020
Abstract
Abstract
We investigate an unstudied, rich component of the relative clause system in Teramano, one of the Upper Southern Italian languages. We focus on light-headed relative clauses – relative clauses that lack a full nominal head and are introduced by only a Determiner-like or pronominal “light head”. We also briefly describe headed relative clauses in Teramano since the morphosyntactic features they exhibit are relevant for the investigation of light-headed relative clauses. Last, we highlight commonalities and differences between light-headed relative clauses in Teramano and Italian. Our paper provides the first systematic in-depth description of light-headed relative clauses in an Upper Southern Italian language that we are aware of, contributes to the knowledge of Teramano, the study of light-headed relative clauses crosslinguistically, and the ongoing investigation of microvariation among Italian and Italian languages.