TY  - JOUR
A1  - LaPolla, Randy J.
T1  - Relative clause structures in the Rawang language
T2  - Language and Linguistics 9.4. (special issue on relative clause structures edited by Henry Y. Chang)
N2  - This paper discusses the types of relative clause and noun complement structures found in the Rawang language, a Tibeto-Burman language of northern Myanmar, as well as their origin and uses, with data taken mainly from naturally occurring texts. Two types are preposed relative clauses, but in one the relative clause is nominalized, and in the other it is not. The non-nominalized form with a general head led to the development of nominalizing suffixes and one type of nominalized relative clause structure. As the nominalized form is a nominal itself, it can be postposed to the head in an appositional structure. There is also discussion of the Rawang structures in the context of Tibeto-Burman and the development of relative clause structures in the language family.
KW  - Nungisch
KW  - Sinotibetische Sprachen
KW  - Tibetobirmanische Sprachen
Y1  - 2010
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/14826
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1157506
UR  - http://victoria.linguistlist.org/~lapolla//rjlapolla/papers/Rawang_relative_clauses.pdf
VL  - 9
IS  - 4
SP  - 797
EP  - 812
ER  -