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Restrictive vs non-restrictive relative clauses in Hausa where morphosyntax and semantics meet

open access: yesStudies in African Linguistics, 1998
Restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses in Hausa are characterized by morpho syntactic properties which are in (near) complementary distribution.
Philip J. Jaggar
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Lexico-Semantic Influence on Syntactic Processing: An Eye-Tracking Study with Spanish Relative Clauses [PDF]

open access: yesBrain Sciences, 2023
This paper investigates the interaction between lexicosemantic and syntactic information in sentence processing by examining the online comprehension of Spanish relative clauses (RCs) of both restrictive and non-restrictive types.
Esther Álvarez-García   +1 more
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A Comparative Study of “as” and “Which” in Non-Restrictive Relative Clauses

open access: yesOpen Journal of Modern Linguistics, 2013
Both “as” and “which” can introduce a non-restrictive relative clause. But each of them has its own particular function in meaning, part of speech and sentence structure. Therefore sometimes they can have similar usage in a certain situation, while most often they are quite different and can not be used alternatively.
Jiancheng Wang, Junhong Tang
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A Survey on Relative Clause Construction in Kurmanji [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات زبان‌‌ها و گویش‌های غرب ایران, 2020
Relative clause construction in Iranian languages appears mainly in sentences as a subordinate clause and acts as a describer for the preceding noun. Following Dixon's (2010) framework, our aim in this paper is to study and describe the relative clause ...
Shaho Majidi, Mehrdad Naghzguy-Kohan
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Remarks on English Non-Restrictive Relative Clauses

open access: yesKorean Journal of English Language and Linguistics, 2015
The purpose of this paper is two folds: one is to examine the controversies among the existing research over the syntactic properties of English non-Restrictive Relative Clauses (hereafter, NRRCs) as opposed to Restrictive Relative Clauses (hereafter, RRCs).
null Lee Jaekeun, null Sungshim Hong
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English/Spanish Relatives and Their Relative Information Structure: A View from Language Contact in Puerto Rico

open access: yesCatalan Journal of Linguistics, 2023
The goal of this paper is to analyse the impact of Main Clause Phenomena (MCP) such as Negative Preposing (NPr) in four types of relative clauses, namely definite restrictive, indefinite restrictive, non-restrictive and kind-defining relative clauses ...
Ángel L. Jiménez-Fernández
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A probe into discourse structure of english relative clauses of Iranian EFL learners’ reading and writing performance: Centering theory in focus

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities, 2020
The purpose of this study was to explore the function of English restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses in discourse cohesion and also intended to examine the possible differences between comprehension and production of restrictive relative ...
Masoomeh Benshams   +3 more
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A study on Relative Clause in English, Indonesian and Arabic Language: A Comparative Analysis

open access: yesIdeas, 2021
The research is conducted to an analysis on relative clause in three languages. The aim of this paper is to compare of relative clause in three languages, namely Indonesian, English and Arabic. The research stage in analyzing the data was data collection,
Dharmawati Dharmawati, Mulyadi Mulyadi
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Restrictive ou appositive? — encore quelques remarques à propos des relatives

open access: yesNeophilologica, 2013
The article concentrates on the problem of the description and classification of relative clauses, which is frequently discussed in specialist literature.
Anna Czekaj
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