det: determiner
The relation determiner (det) holds between a nominal head and its determiner. In Classical Armenian, pronominal adjectives and quantifiers can have adpositions and articles as their own dependents, which are attached to their head with the det relation. This is an exception from the general rule, according to which determiners cannot have dependents.
1 Եւ եւ CCONJ _ _ 2 cc _ _
2 փրկեցաւ փրկել VERB _ _ 0 root _ _
3 կին կին NOUN _ _ 2 nsubj _ _
4 ն ն DET _ _ 3 det _ _
5 ի ի ADP _ _ 6 case _ _
6 ժամէ ժամ NOUN _ _ 2 obl _ _
7 ն ն DET _ _ 6 det _ _
8 յ ի ADP _ _ 9 case _ _
9 այնմանէ այն DET _ _ 6 det _ _
10 : : PUNCT _ _ 2 punct _ _
“And the woman was made whole from that hour.” (Mt. 9:22)
In a relative clause, the enclitic definite article is commonly attached to the word occupying the second position in the clause, even when it is a personal verb form. In such cases, it is conventionally linked to the relative pronoun at the beginning of the cause:
որ էջ ն յ երկնից \n he that came down from heaven
nsubj(էջ, որ)
det(որ, ն)
References
Jensen, Hans. 1959. Altarmenische Grammatik. Heidelberg: Winter.
Klein, Jared. 2017. The syntax of Armenian. In: J. Klein et al. (eds.), Handbook of comparative and historical Indo-European linguistics. Berlin, Boston: Walter de Gruyter: 1097‒1115.
de Lamberterie, Charles. 1997. L’article dans la relative en arménien classique. In: E. Crespo, J. L. García Ramón (eds.), Berthold Delbrück y la sintaxis indoeuropea hoy. Actas del Coloquio de la Indogermanische Gesellschaft Madrid, 21−24 de septiembre de 1994. Wiesbaden: Reichert: 311−326.
det in other languages: [bej] [bg] [bm] [cop] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fi] [fr] [fro] [ga] [gsw] [gub] [hy] [it] [ja] [kk] [ky] [no] [pcm] [pt] [ro] [ru] [sl] [ssp] [sv] [swl] [tr] [u] [vi] [xcl] [yue] [zh]