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Ziv, Yael. 1975. On the relevance of content to the form-function correlation: An examination of extraposed relative clauses. Papers from the Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 11 (Parasession on functionalism,) : 568–579.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative function | restrictive relative clause

Annotation

Z. contends that the communicative functions of restrictive relative clauses are determined by the process of relative clause extraposition (i.e. Form) and certain semantic-pragmatic properties of the propositions in both the main clause and the relative clause (i.e. Content).