Abstract
The fact that in the corpora of Chinese learners of Italian as a Second Language, Rel(altive) Cl(ause) are rare and problematic in nature, gives reason to think that the learners might try to avoid a syntactic structure that is extremely productive in the target language–Italian–both for number of ”avoidance” of RelCls, I investigated the ability of Chinese learners to produce RelCls within syntactic contexts of L2 Italian that obligatorily require the presence of a RelCl. In order to do that, I stimulated the elicitation of RelCls in L2 Italian through a questionnaire that I designed for this specific purpose. Data of that questionnaire are here analyzed and discussed.
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