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Publication Date: 1998
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Infinitival Relative Clauses in Spoken Discourse.
Geisler, Christer
Language Variation and Change, v10 n1 p23-41 1998
Looks at infinitival relative clauses, such as "Mary is the person to ask," and their distribution in spoken English. Analyzes the correlation between the function of the antecedent in the relative clause and the function of the whole postmodified noun phrase in the matrix clause. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English, Nouns, Oral Language, Phrase Structure, Structural Analysis (Linguistics)
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Language: English
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