Jan Fellerer

The Development of Relative Clauses in Modern Ukrainian: Lexical Variation over Syntactic Change

The paper argues that developments and changes in relative-clause formation in Ukrainian since the end of the 18th c. are due to lexical variation between a relative particle, typically ščo ‘that’, with or without a resumptive pronoun, and the relative pronouns jakyj and kotryj ‘which’. This repertory of relativisers i...