ABSTRACT
CHAPTERIII:NominalizationandEmbeddedClauses
3.1Relativeclauses
3.11SUbjectrelativeswithkw-
WewillfirstconsiderMojaverelativeclausesinwhichthe
"head"nounmodifiedbytherelativeclauseisthesubjectofthat
clause.SuchrelativeclausesareallformedthesameWS¥inMojave,
regardlessoftheroleofthe"head"nouninthemainclause.(It
mightbearguedthatthe"adjective"construction(section1.181),in
whichathird-personverbformsimplyfollowsthenounitmodifies,is
atypeofreducedrelativeclause.?ahatiraw'fasthorse'isanexam-
pleofthisattributiveuseofaveryrestrictedclassofMojaveverbs
--basically,thosetranslatedbyEnglishadjectives.)Asubject-rela-
tiveprefix,kw-,isattachedtotheverboftherelativeclause,as
diagrammedin
Theoccurrenceoftheheadnouninthematrixsentenceisindexedto
correspondwiththesubjectoftherelativeclause(inotherwords,
withthesubjectoftheverbmarkedwiththeprefixkw-)--bothofthese
nounsaremarkedin(1)asNPi.Thisstructurewillbefurtherdis-
cussedbelow.
