Light-headed relative clauses in Teramano
Iara Mantenuto | California State University, Dominguez Hills
Ivano Caponigro | University of California San Diego
We investigate an unstudied, rich component of the relative clause system in Teramano, one of the Upper Southern Italian
languages. We focus on light-headed relative clauses – relative clauses that lack a full nominal head and are introduced by only a
Determiner-like or pronominal “light head”. We also briefly describe headed relative clauses in Teramano since the morphosyntactic features
they exhibit are relevant for the investigation of light-headed relative clauses. Last, we highlight commonalities and differences between
light-headed relative clauses in Teramano and Italian. Our paper provides the first systematic in-depth description of light-headed relative
clauses in an Upper Southern Italian language that we are aware of, contributes to the knowledge of Teramano, the study of light-headed
relative clauses crosslinguistically, and the ongoing investigation of microvariation among Italian and Italian languages.
Keywords: headed relative clauses, light-headed relative clauses, Upper Southern Italian, Teramano, Abruzzese
Published online: 09 December 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.20037.man
https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.20037.man
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