Comparative Concept: relativizer (str)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
relativizer (str)
| Typ | strategy (def) |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | relativizer |
| Assoziiert | |
| Spraakbanken | relativizer (str) |
Umbrella
Hierarchy
Definition
a form that signals that an action is being used as a modifier – that is, it signals a relative clause. Example: in I ate the cheesecake [that Carol baked], that is the relativizer. A relativizer makes a relative clause construction - syndetic. (Section 19.2.1)