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Relative Clauses and/or Participials in Malayalam

Hima S., M.Phil.

1. Structure of relative clauses

1.1. The promotion analysis

Kayne (1994) proposes a uniform base/initial structure for all the world’s languages, from which the surface orders are derived by movement. This is in consequence of the Linear Correspondence Axiom (LCA) for linear order (of terminals) and hierarchical structure (of non-terminals) in language.

One consequence of the assumption of Antisymmetry in language is that relative clauses are uniformly CP complements of D:
(1) the [CP [picture]i that [TP Bill saw ei]]

In languages like English, the promoted NP moves from within the complement of C out into Spec CP, making the relative clause postnominal. On the other hand, in languages with prenominal relative clauses, which are verb final languages, the structure is:
(2)[DP[TP Bill saw ei]j D [CP [NP picture]i C ej]

This is because N cannot come to the final position in the relative clause by moving it in a mirror-like manner compared to the N-initial type of languages. In many of these languages the absence of an overt definite article makes the D null or invisible; however, based on the behaviour of D in Amharic which is an N-final type language with an overt definite article, Kayne proposes that the relative clause itself has to move to Spec DP (stranding the head N in Spec CP), and therefore what moves is not the whole CP but only the TP.

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Hima S., MPhil.
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi110067
India
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