Light-headed relative clauses in Teramano
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.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Teramano basics and headed relative clauses
- 2.1Teramano basics
- 2.2Headed relative clauses in Teramano
- 3.Light-headed relative clauses in Teramano
- 3.1Light-headed relative clauses with a pronominal head
- 3.2Light-headed relative clauses with a demonstrative light head
- 3.3Light-headed Relative Clauses with a quantificational light head
- 3.4Light-headed Relative Clauses with an adverbial light head
- 4.Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Abbreviations
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