| Typological Study of Relativizing Strategies Based on Syntactic-Semantic Roles of Head Noun in Kilani Dialect |
| Paper ID : 1075-ICIL |
| Authors |
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Pooneh Mostafavi *1, Zahra Haji Momenie2 1No. 2, 30 Tir St., Imam Khomeini Ave. Research Center for Cultural Heritage and Tourism 2Student |
| Abstract |
| A relative clause is a clause narrowing the referent of a referring expression, which is called the head noun. It may serves as subject or as an oblique within relative clause. Languages employ different relativizing strategies for different syntactic-semantic roles of the head noun. There are four strategies for relativizing including relative pronoun, nonreduction, pronoun retention and gap in the case of subject role. Languages employ the above four strategies in addition to “not possible” strategy, for relativizing when the head noun serves as an oblique. “Not possible” means that relativizing in oblique position is not possible in some languages. The present article aims at typological study of the mentioned relativizing strategies in Kilani dialect. Kilani is spoken in Kilan city, 26 Kilometers far from southeast of Damavand city. As Kilani is going to be an endanger dialect, it is essential to study about it. The data gathering in this survey is done through interviewing the Kilani speakers via prepared questionnaire. The data analysis are based on Comrie and Kuteva (2005). They studied relativizing strategies in the world languages according to syntactic-semantic roles of the head noun in relative clauses. According to data analysis, in Kilani two strategies (gap and pronoun retention) out of four/five strategies are employed for relativizing constructions. The gap strategy is employed, when the head noun is in subject role in relative clauses. In the case of oblique role for head noun within the relative clause, both pronoun retention and gap strategies are used. |
| Keywords |
| Head Noun, Relativizing Strategies, Kilani Dialect |
| Status: Accepted |