Abstract
0. The objective of this study is to explore relative clause extraposition in Navajo and to confront the facts of this putative rule of Navajo with various proposals mentioned in the linguistic literature concerning the corresponding rule in English, specifically the constraints on variables in syntax (Ross 1967) and the structure-preserving constraint (Emonds 1976). The basic word order in Navajo, as in other Athapaskan languages, is SOV.2 This fact is exemplified by the following sentence: (1) Jaan tji'yizloh. John horse he-roped-it 'John roped the horse'. The syntactic structure of this simple sentence can be represented as in (2) below, in which the first NP is the subject and the second NP is the
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