a typological analysis of relativisation strategies in farsi and german

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 analysis and tries to show how relative clauses use these strategiesand where the place of farsi and german in these categories is? the results ofthis study will demonstrate that german using relative pronoun strategy whichis a kind of pronoun-retention strategies. however, the syntactic role of headnoun in relative clause in farsi is marked with various strategies, including gapstrategy and personal pronoun strategy.