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Noun-Modifying Clause Constructions in Languages of Eurasia: Rethinking theoretical and geographical boundaries
Edited by Yoshiko Matsumoto, Bernard Comrie and Peter Sells
[Typological Studies in Language 116] 2017
► pp. 339–353

Appendix 1
Examples to explore in noun-modifying constructions

Article outline
  • A.Basic structures
    • background
    • questions/ examples
  • B.Detailed elicitation of NMCs
    • B1.Relative clause equivalents
    • B2.Sentential complement of noun
      • Nouns of communication as head
      • Nouns of thoughts and feeling as head
      • Other content-taking nouns as head
    • B3.Other types of NMC
      • Relational nouns as head
      • Spatial or temporal relational head nouns
      • Quasi-relational nouns as head
      • Nouns of perception as head
  • C.Questions regarding syntactic constraints
    • questions examples
    • further elaboration
      • 1.Adjunct islands
      • 2.Sentential subjects as potential islands
      • 3.Complex noun phrase islands
      • 4.Wh-islands
      • 5.Coordinate constructions as islands