IN the preceding chapter, we compared a bound modifier to an animal species that has already arrived at its evolutionary dead-end and a free relative modifier to a species that partakes of a wide gene ...

For each pair of sentences below, think about ways of combining the two sentences into one new sentence containing a “restrictive relative clause.” Recall that a restrictive relative clause, which is ...

Some sentences below contain relative clauses; some do not. If you believe that a sentence contains a relative clause, (A) Click on the first word of the relative clause. (B) Then click on the last ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article studies two aspects of movement in relative clauses, focusing on evidence from Nez Perce. First, I argue that relativization ...

Extraposed relative clauses pose certain problems for movement-based analyses. They seem to be insensitive to island constraints, and show intricate interactions with variable binding. Starting from ...

More than four years ago, I replied to this tough grammar question by a member of Jose Carillo’s English Forum: “Do noun clauses grammatically functioning as subjects in a sentence follow the sequence ...

Relative clauses are bound clauses that modify NPs and occasionally CPs. The former are adjoined to NPs. A relative clause contains a WH-phrase which moves and is adjoined to CP: The student who likes ...