Abstract:
The paper shows that the Accessibility Hierarchy, formulated by E. Keenan and B. Comrie for the relativisation of the syntactic positions, is valid for Bulgarian and Polish (actually, Polish was one of the over fifty languages observed by Keenan and Comrie). We point out that there are syntactic positions in Bulgarian and Polish (as well as in Italian, shown already by G. Cinque) subject of relativization, which are not present in the Accessibility Hierarchy: those are the position of nominal predicative and the positions of locative and temporal nominal and prepositional adverbials. The evidences from Bulgarian and Polish could contribute to the overall typological description of the relativisation across languages.
