in german, a relative clause is marked by relative pronoun, which agrees withtheir head noun in gender and number. however, relative clauses in farsi arealways introduced by using a conjunction “ke”. this difference could be iranianand german learners when learning languages, german and farsi to confrontdifficulties. the present study focuses on relativisation strategies based ontypological ana...

1. Introduction Possessive relations are fundamental in linguistic descriptions. The alienability between a possessum and its possessor, in particular, has received much attention in the literature (see Antrim, 1996 and a recent collection by Coene & D'hulst, 2003, for reviews). The issue of alienability concerns whether a nominal entity holds an intrinsic relation with its possessor. Such a re...