Relative Clauses in West Greenlandic: A descriptive analysis in terms of Functional Grammar
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Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
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In my MA Thesis of 1991, I have tried to give a concise overview of
all relevant factors directly involved in one important
subdomain of noun modification in West Greenlandic, namely
that which can be discerned as restrictive relative clause
formation.
An important ground for investigation of this area of West
Greenlandic (henceforth WG) grammar I feel, is the lack of
attention it has got in traditional works of grammar. This
lack is quite understandable, as it is with some right that
the grammarians concerned have sometimes stated that
relative clauses (henceforth RCs) don't really exist in WG,
or at least not as we know them from many Indo-European
(henceforth I-E) languages. Relativization is brought about
in WG by means of devices that correspond to participle
forms in I-E languages. At the same time, these devices,
the intransitive and the passive participle, serve other
grammatical ends as well besides noun modification.
Therefore, factors involved in RC formation are treated in
different parts of these grammatical works.
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In my MA Thesis of 1991, I have tried to give a concise overview of
all relevant factors directly involved in one important
subdomain of noun modification in West Greenlandic, namely
that which can be discerned as restrictive relative clause
formation.
An important ground for investigation of this area of West
Greenlandic (henceforth WG) grammar I feel, is the lack of
attention it has got in traditional works of grammar. This
lack is quite understandable, as it is with some right that
the grammarians concerned have sometimes stated that
relative clauses (henceforth RCs) don't really exist in WG,
or at least not as we know them from many Indo-European
(henceforth I-E) languages. Relativization is brought about
in WG by means of devices that correspond to participle
forms in I-E languages. At the same time, these devices,
the intransitive and the passive participle, serve other
grammatical ends as well besides noun modification.
Therefore, factors involved in RC formation are treated in
different parts of these grammatical works.