Adjectival clauses with participle: comparison of Basque, Spanish and Czech

Abstract

It is known that Basque is a non-Indo-European language, and that Romance and Slavic languages are Indo-European. Relative clauses are one of the aspects in which the Basque language has best preserved its non-Indo-European nature. In this paper, we focus on reduced relative clauses, i.e. with participle, which stress the uniqueness of Basque (for example, in the left-branching structure of its relative clauses as something typical of many non-Indo-European languages). The characteristics that Basque shares with the two other researched languages (Spanish and Czech) regarding reduced relative clauses are scarce.

Keywords

• cláusulas relativas reducidas con verbo no finito
• funciones relativizables
• ramificación a la izquierda
• ramificación a la derecha.