The University of Tehran Journal of Foreign Language Research 2588-4123 3 1 2013 03 21 A Typological Analysis of Relativisation Strategies in Farsi and German A Typological Analysis of Relativisation Strategies in Farsi and German 61 76 53763 10.22059/jflr.2013.53763 FA Kaveh Bahrami Assistant Professor, Department of German Language and Literature, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran Journal Article 2015 01 07 In German, a relative clause is marked by relative pronoun, which agrees with<br />their head noun in gender and number. However, relative clauses in Farsi are<br />always introduced by using a conjunction “ke”. This difference could be Iranian<br />and German learners when learning languages, German and Farsi to confront<br />difficulties. The present study focuses on relativisation strategies based on<br />typological analysis and tries to show how relative clauses use these strategies<br />and where the place of Farsi and German in these categories is? The results of<br />this study will demonstrate that German using relative pronoun strategy which<br />is a kind of pronoun-retention strategies. However, the syntactic role of head<br />noun in relative clause in Farsi is marked with various strategies, including gap<br />strategy and personal pronoun strategy. In German, a relative clause is marked by relative pronoun, which agrees with<br />their head noun in gender and number. However, relative clauses in Farsi are<br />always introduced by using a conjunction “ke”. This difference could be Iranian<br />and German learners when learning languages, German and Farsi to confront<br />difficulties. The present study focuses on relativisation strategies based on<br />typological analysis and tries to show how relative clauses use these strategies<br />and where the place of Farsi and German in these categories is? The results of<br />this study will demonstrate that German using relative pronoun strategy which<br />is a kind of pronoun-retention strategies. However, the syntactic role of head<br />noun in relative clause in Farsi is marked with various strategies, including gap<br />strategy and personal pronoun strategy. https://jflr.ut.ac.ir/article_53763_3012fa5ba48a7d1aaf8d1c3a8b6a9e55.pdf