a word order strategy for externally headed - relative clause constructions in which the relative clause precedes the relative clause head. Example: in Turkish [Hasanın Sinana ver-diğ-i] patatesi yedim 'I ate the potato that Hasan gave to Sinan', the Hasanın Sinana ver-diğ-i '[that] Hasan gave to Sinan' is prenominal because it precedes the relative clause head patatesi 'potato'. The prenominal strategy is much less common than the postnominal strategy, and is strongly correlated with object– verb word order. (Section 19.2.2)