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I am working on relative clauses in Kyrgyz. Kyrgyz and some other Turkic languages show agreement of subject with object in relative clauses, instead of the verb. It is an SVO language. 

Menin okugan        kitabim
I-Gen read-rel.suf. book-1st persn

"The book that I read"

Are there other languages that show an agreement of subject with object, but not with verb in relative clauses? What can be the cause of it?

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Can you also explain how possession works in this language, give a few more relative clause examples, and indicate morpheme breaks in the Kyrgyz examples? – jlovegren Jan 15 at 3:43
some interesting examples on pp.79--80 in Comrie 1998 from another Turkic language. I am wanting more data because I am assuming from the start that the example means "my book that I read" – jlovegren Jan 21 at 17:18

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