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Fabb, Nigel – Journal of Linguistics, 1990
Describes and compares restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses and shows that, when studying their superficial differences, there is no need for construction-specific stipulations that distinguish between them. All the superficial differences between the two are derived from the single basic difference that one is a modifier and the other is not.…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English, Semantics, Sentence Structure