Abstract
AbstractChapter 3 introduces a long-standing debate about relative clause syntax in the prehistory of the Indo-European language family. Understanding the prehistory of the relative pronouns found in early attested Indo-European languages is usually seen as the key to understanding what, if anything, Proto-Indo-European had by way of relative clauses. Matters are complicated by the presence of two candidates for reconstructable Indo-European relative pronouns, found in different languages from one another. Some early attested Indo-European languages, including Greek, form relative clauses with reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European pronoun*(H)yo-, but others use reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European pronoun *kwi-/kwo-. This chapter surveys the debate as to whether either or both of these already functioned as a relative pronoun in Proto-Indo-European and if so, what relative clause syntax was involved. The chapter finishes by considering alternative approaches that avoid making relative pronouns the starting point for reconstructing relative clause syntax.
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