Comparative Concept: anaphoric-head relative clause construction (cxn)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
anaphoric-head relative clause construction (cxn)
| Typ | construction |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | anaphoric-head relative clause construction |
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an anaphoric-head construction in which the modifier is a clause denoting an event. Example: in K'ichee' utz [lē xubij lē achi] 'What the man said is good', the clause lē xubij lē achi 'the man said [it]' is an instance of the anaphoric-head relative clause construction. (Section 19.4)