acl:relcl:
The acl:relcl relation is used for a relative clause modifier of a nominal.
The nominal headword (aka antecedent) of the relative clause usually precedes the relative clause and can be resumed in it. As with New Persian, there are attestations of antecedent marking by means of the specifier =ēw (probably pronounced ī at that time). The relativizer is in most cases not pronominal.
Middle Persian relative clauses are finite and can be dislocated.
- “(it) took away the things which have fallen there”
tis =ēw ī ān gyāg kaft ēstēd bē barēd \n thing one REL that place fallen stands away carries det(tis, =ēw) mark(kaft, ī) acl:relcl(tis, kaft) - “The righteous man is a being who has accepted the mission for which he was created.”
mard ī ašō dām ast kē =š grift ān xwēškārīh ī awi =š āfurrīhist \n man EZ righteous creature is REL he took that task REL to it was_created mark(grift, kē) nsubj(grift, =š) acl:relcl(grift, dām) mark(āfurrīhist, ī) obl(āfurrīhist, =š-13) acl:relcl(xwēškārīh, āfurrīhist) - “And there is a place where noxious creatures tear them apart just like dogs (tear apart) bones.”
ud hast gyāg kū =šān xrastar ēdōn kirrēnēnd čiyōn sag astuxān \n and is place where them noxious_creatues so tear.3pl how dog bone obl:lmod(kirrēnēnd, kū) acl:relcl(gyāg, kirrēnēnd)
If the relative clause is a nominal clause and introduced by the relativizer ī, it is not always possible to distinguish it from an ezāfe construction, where a nominal attribute is linked by the ezāfe particle ī to its headword. The copular verb is often missing in nominal clauses so that, formally, mihrēn ī=m pid can be interpreted as “my father Mihrēn” or as “Mihrēn, who (is) my father”.
- relative clause: “the vitalising spirit, which (is) between soul (and) body”
- nominal modifier: “the vitalising spirit between soul (and) body”
mēnōy ī zīyēnāg ī andarg ruwān tan \n spirit EZ vitalising REL between soul body mark(ruwān, ī-4) acl:relcl(mēnōy, ruwān)mēnōy ī zīyēnāg ī andarg ruwān tan \n spirit EZ vitalising EZ between soul body det(ruwān, ī-4) nmod(mēnōy, ruwān)
acl:relcl in other languages: [ab] [axm] [bej] [cop] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [fi] [fr] [ga] [gd] [hbo] [hy] [id] [it] [lt] [naq] [no] [oc] [pa] [pal] [pcm] [pro] [pt] [qpm] [ru] [scn] [sv] [swl] [u] [urj] [vi]