626 12 Extraction processes[ere i-vassaed-aen isam-annaem]
[whoever 3MaSgS-ruin.LoImpfP-Partpl.MaSg name-2FeSgPoss
'Go to someone on whom you have placed (your) hopes, (and) who is
not someone who ruins (=will ruin) your-Fe name.' [K]The first relative here (w-a-Vdaer ...), in line 2 of the text, is a prepositional
relative. This is followed by a parallel second participial relative (waer-aen ...)
that has a copula 'be', whose object NP is itself in participial relative form
headed by ere. (Perhaps the last verb is i-raessaed-aen with shortened ae, but
this is how I transcribed it; I do not know how rigorous χ-pcl Erasure is in Κ
dialect, and the point is not germane here).12.1.1 Subject relatives
Subject relatives, where the subject of the relative clause is coreferential to the
head noun, are formed by participles, which replace normal subject affixes by
a special set of participial endings including gender-number (but not person)
categories. The structure of a definite relative clause, corresponding to the
usual restrictive relative clause in English (with semantically definite NP), is
(713).
(713) Definite Subject Relative Clause
[demonstrative (clitics) (preverb) definite Partpl ...(complements)]I consider the demonstrative to be in apposition to the head NP, and to be
the initial constituent of the relative clause itself. The head noun may appear
before the relative clause, or may be be omitted, resulting in a headless
construction translatable as e.g. 'he who drank the tea' or 'the one who drank
the tea'.
The demonstrative forms (MaSg w-ά etc. after noun, 3rd person pronoun,
or zero, and 1 after lst/2nd person pronoun) are given in the opening of §12.1,
above.
The morphology of participles is described at length in §8.5. Participles
distinguish MaSg, FeSg, and (gender-unspecified) PI of the subject. If there is
a preverbal particle (Negative or Future), the participial suffix is (in most
cases) attached to the preverb. (714.a) is a simple transitive relative clause;
(714.b) illustrates the position of object clitics, and (714.c-d) illustrates the
attachment of the participial ending to a preverbal particle. (714.e) shows the
ablaut modifications (here χ-pci Erasure (130) and Rightward Accent Shift
(132)) that are normal in definite relatives, cf. 0-t-lhnsffi-t (c/t-t-ihnsffi-t/)
'she is groaning'.