Aidanpine

Relativizer typology

There are two separate phrasal heads that relativizers can occupy. Cross-linguistically, relativizers may occupy either the head of a complementizer phrase (C-Type Relativizer) or the head of a determiner phrase (D-Type Relativizer). C-Type Relativizers can introduce a relative clause as an argument of a noun phrase, or they can introduce a relative clause as an argument of a verb phrase. D-Type Relativizers may only introduce a relative clause as an argument of a noun phrase. English is a language which uses a C-Type Relativizer, that, as a part of its relativization strategy. Conversely, Arabic uses two phonologically distinct morphemes to account for these syntactic phenomena. The following examples from Lebanese Arabic, along with their respective English translations illustrate this:

Relative clause as an argument of a noun phrase:

• (*1-)paris lli bħibba
• the-Paris RM I.love.it
• The Paris that I love

Relative clause as an argument of a verb phrase:

• xabbaret-na laila ʔenno l-mmaslin mʔadrabiin
• told-us laila that the-actors on.strike
• Laila told us that the actors are on strike.

Aidanpine (talk) 21:18, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

November 2013

Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I've noticed that you have been adding your signature to some of your edits to articles. This is a common mistake to make and has probably already been corrected. Please do not sign your edits to article content, as the article's edit history serves the function of attributing contributions, so you only need to use your signature to make discussions more readable, such as on article talk pages or project pages such as the Village Pump. If you would like further information about distinguishing types of pages, please see What is an article?. Again, thank you for contributing, and enjoy your Wikipedia experience! Thank you. Jac16888 ^Talk 18:15, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Incomplete DYK nomination

Hello! Your submission of Template:Did you know nominations/Relativizer at the Did You Know nominations page is not complete; see step 3 of the nomination procedure. If you do not want to continue with the nomination, tag the nomination page with {{db-g7}}, or ask a DYK admin. Thank you. DYKHousekeepingBot (talk) 05:05, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:Ouhallian Relativizer.jpg

A tag has been placed on File:Ouhallian Relativizer.jpg requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section F1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the image is an unused redundant copy (all pixels the same or scaled down) of an image in the same file format, which is on Wikipedia (not on Commons), and all inward links have been updated.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Sfan00 IMG (talk) 10:12, 24 July 2014 (UTC)