Adjectival clauses with participle: comparison of Basque, Spanish and Czech

• Main Author: Karlos Cid Abasolo
• Format: Article
• Language: Catalan
• Published: Universidad Complutense de Madrid 2017-03-01
• Series: Revista de Filología Románica
• Subjects: cláusulas relativas reducidas con verbo no finito; funciones relativizables; ramificación a la izquierda; ramificación a la derecha.
• Online Access: http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/RFRM/article/view/55229

It is known that Basque is a non-Indo-European language, and that Romance and Slavic languages are Indo-European. Relative clauses are one of the aspects in which the Basque language has best preserved its non-Indo-European nature. In this paper, we focus on reduced relative clauses, i.e. with participle, which stress the uniqueness of Basque (for example, in the left-branching structure of its relative clauses as something typical of many non-Indo-European languages). The characteristics that Basque shares with the two other researched languages (Spanish and Czech) regarding reduced relative clauses are scarce.