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Peer reviewedGivon, Talmy – Language, 1973
Preliminary paper on this subject read at the Mid-Summer Linguistics Conference, University of California, Santa Cruz, July 1971. (DD)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Language Typology, Language Usage, Phrase Structure
Peer reviewedCarlson, Greg N. – Language, 1977
It is argued here that English contains a distinct class of relative clauses called amount relatives. On the surface, these are much like restrictive relative clauses, but they have a syntax and semantics that align them more with comparatives than with restrictive relatives. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: English, Language Patterns, Linguistic Theory, Nouns
