Abstract Cuwabo (Bantu P34, Mozambique) illustrates a relativization strategy, also attested in some North-Western and Central Bantu languages, whose most salient characteristics are that: (a) the initial agreement slot of the verb form does not express agreement with the subject (as in independent clauses), but agreement with the head noun; (b) the initial agreement slot of the verb form does not express agreement in person and number-gender (or class), but only in number-gender; (c) when a noun phrase other than the subject is relativized, the noun phrase encoded as the subject in the corresponding independent clause occurs in post-verbal position and does not control any agreement mechanism. In this article, we show that, in spite of the similarity between the relative verb forms of Cuwabo and the corresponding independent verb forms, and the impossibility of isolating a morphological element analyzable as a participial formative, the relative verb forms of Cuwabo are participles, with the following two particularities: they exhibit full contextual orientation, and they assign a specific grammatical role to the initial subject, whose encoding in relative clauses coincides neither with that of subjects of independent verb forms, nor with that of adnominal possessors.

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Cuwabo（Bantu P34）的相对动词形式为上下文分词

摘要Cuwabo（莫桑比克的Bantu P34）说明了一种相对化策略，也已在西北和中部班图语中得到证明，其最显着的特征是：（a）动词形式的初始一致性槽未表达与主体的一致性（如独立条款中所述），但与首名词一致；（b）动词形式的初始协议槽未表示亲身和数字性别（或阶级）的协议，而仅表示数字性别；（c）当相对于主语的名词短语被相对化时，在相应独立子句中被编码为主语的名词短语出现在口头后位置，并且不能控制任何一致机制。在本文中，我们表明，尽管Cuwabo的相对动词形式与相应的独立动词形式之间存在相似性，