Abstract
This paper discusses relative clauses in Akan. I examine, among others, the noun phrase positions, the positions that are accessible to relativization as well as the type of NPs that serve as heads in the relative clause. I show that, like most Kwa languages, the head noun does not require a determiner. In contrast, the relative clause itself embeds a clausal determiner. Another property of the relative clause in Akan is that it requires a resumptive pronoun. I show that this is not to repair subjacency violations as has been proposed by Chomsky (1981) because the resumptive pronoun in Akan also occurs in argument positions.
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