Universal #1595

Legacy number: 1595

 Number  1591
 Original  Clear cases of internal relative clauses are present only in languages whose basic word order is SOV.
 Standardized  IF there are internal relative clauses, THEN word order will be SOV.
 Formula  internal relative clause ⇒ SOV
 Keywords  relative clause, internal (= replacive, =headless), order, SOV
 Domain  syntax
 Type  implication
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  Tibetan (Tibeto-Karen, Sino-Tibetan), Diegueño (Hokan), Wappo (Yukian), Bambara (Mande, Niger-Congo), Quechua (Andean), Navajo (Athabaskan)
 Source  Keenan 1985b: 163

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Discussion
Notes
1. INTERNAL relative clauses are ones which present a domain noun internal to Srel and are thus syntactically headless. Downing (#679) calls such relative clauses ‘replacive’, Gil (2000) and Cole (#1596) refer to them as to ‘internally-headed’, Gorbet (#1601) calls them ‘headless relative clauses’. 2. Cf. the similar statement by Downing (#679).
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
1. INTERNAL relative clauses are ones which present a domain noun internal to Srel and are thus syntactically headless. Downing (<a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=679"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">) calls such relative clauses 'replacive', Gil 2000 and Cole (<a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=1596"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">) refer to them as to 'internally-headed', Gorbet (<a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=1601"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">) calls them 'headless relative clauses'.

2. Cf. the similar statement by Downing (<a class="innerLink" href="browse.php?entry_id=679"><img src="../img/entry.gif" border="0">).