In their studies on relative clauses (RCs), Keenan andComrie (1977) and Downing (1977,1978) identify certain syntactic features which they consider to be universal features of relative clause structures. However, Downing (1978:375) cautions that his implicational universal "may be considered hypotheses to be tested against additional data of relative clause structure." This paper primarily examines the syntactic features of RCs in Ewe, but in doing so provides additional data against which some of the universal features claimed for RCs are tested. Overall, the universals tested in this study have been supported by the data from Ewe.
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