| Name |
Relative Postmodifier-of-Noun Construction
|
| Semantic function of cxn |
Providing description or evaluation of THING REFERRED to by noun. |
| Semantic role of slots |
THING REFERRED TO |
DESCRIPTION / EVALUATION |
| Syntactic form |
N |
| relative clause | | ① SUBJ-NP = | who | PRED | | which | | that | | whose N | | ② PRED-NP = | that | SUBJ PREDrest | | who | | whom | | which | | whose N | | PPwhom|which|whose N | | ③ PRED-PP = | where | SUBJ PREDrest | | when | | why |
|
| Example |
① the President that won the last election, the author whose book was a bestseller② the boy she was in love with, the linguist whose approach they disapproved of, the girl with whom he had fallen in love③ the place where they had met
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| Construction family |
MODIFIER CONSTRUCTION
|
| Literature |
Herbst & Hoffmann (2023: Ch.5) |
| Annotators/Date |
TRH/04/21F |
