Relativisation in Telugu and English

Abstract

Relative clauses can be pre-nominal or post-nominal which is a parametric variation. The languages taken for the analysis in this paper are English and Telugu which allow post nominal and pre-nominal relative clauses respectively. This paper mainly focuses on the relativisation of noun phrase position in English and Telugu with regard to ease of accessibility of noun phrase positions to the formation of relative clauses and also the constraints in the formation. This study will tell us whether Comrie's (1981) Accessibility Hierarchy holds true for Telugu too.