Der Relativsatzzyklus: Zur Begründung der Variation in Relativsätzen des Italienischen und Portugiesischen

ROM项目涉及意大利语和葡萄牙语中限制性和同位关系从句的共时和历时分析。一般认为关系从句要么由代词引导，要么由补语引导。然而，以前的一个项目的结果表明，这种二分法不能维持。各种意大利语和葡萄牙语表现出不同形式的关系化有不同的功能配置和句法属性。罗曼语中的关系补语是从代词的wh形式发展而来的，这种变异性表明存在着一个语法化循环，其各个阶段仍有待确定。ROM项目旨在根据历史资料确定这些阶段。我们将首先集中分析结构现象，如附格重叠，同意补语和指示+补语结构及其分层作为相对循环的连续步骤;然后我们将研究意大利语和葡萄牙语之间的相似性和差异，以及限制性和同位关系从句相对于相对循环的阶段。

The project ROM deals with the synchronic and diachronic analysis of restrictive and appositive relative clauses in Italian and Portuguese. It is generally assumed that relative clauses are either introduced by pronouns or by complementizers. However, the results of a previous project have shown that this dichotomy cannot be maintained.Varieties of Italian and Portuguese exhibit different forms of relativizers with distinct feature configurations and syntactic properties. Given the fact that relative complementizers in Romance have developed out of pronominal wh-forms, this variability points towards the existence of a grammaticalization cycle whose stages still have to be defined.The project ROM aims at identifying these stages and will do so on the basis of historical data. We will first focus on the analysis of structural phenomena like clitic doubling, agreeing complementizers and demonstrative + complementizer constructions and their layering as successive steps of the relative cycle; then we will investigate the similarities and differences between Italian and Portuguese and between restrictive and appositive relative clauses with respect to the stages of the relative cycle.