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Revisiting the system of English relative clauses: structure, semantics, discourse functionality
FRANCIS CORNISH
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The goal of this article is to uncover the system underlying three types of English relative clauses, and to characterise their distinctive uses in discourse: NP-integrated ones, namely restrictive and ‘a-restrictive’ relative clauses, and non-integrated ones, represented by non-restrictive relatives.
The area at issue is central, since understanding the functioning of these constructions requires reference to the fundamental interface between grammar (language system) and discourse (language use). The discourse functions of the three subtypes of relatives are claimed to be underlain by their intrinsic morphosyntactic and semantic properties. A major aim is to highlight the relative degree of ‘communicative dynamism’ of each subtype of relative clause, in terms of its respective contribution to the construction of discourse.
In doing so, the article focuses on the distinctive properties of presupposed as well as non-presupposed restrictive relatives, and of definite as well as indefinite NPs containing integrated relatives more generally. Along the way, it critically examines certain controversial conceptions of the structural and functional features of the constructions at issue, and, in particular, the claim that there is no essential distinction to be drawn between ‘integrated’ and phrase-external relative clause subtypes at all.

PATRICK ARNAUD (1939-2016)
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Patrick Arnaud was born in Paris on 27 May 1939. He completed his secondary school education at the Lycée Buffon and undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Sciences of the Sorbonne, before his doctoral studies in Biological oceanography in 1960, a field developed in France, at Marseille, by Professor Jean-Marie Pérès.

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Revisiting the system of English relative clauses: structure, semantics, discourse functionality

PATRICK ARNAUD (1939-2016)

Reunification of China: Peace through War under the Song Dynasty. By Peter Lorge . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. vii + 299 pp. $99, £64.99 (cloth), $80, £51 (ebook).

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Elizabeth Hallam , Anatomy Museum: Death and the Body Displayed. London: Reaktion, 2016. Pp. 444. ISBN 978-1-86189-375-8. £35.00 (hardback).

Gowan Dawson , Show Me the Bone: Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. 476. ISBN 978-0-226-33273-4. $50.00 (cloth).

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Benjamin Peters , How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016. Pp. xiii + 298. ISBN 978-0-262-03418-0. £28.95 (hardback).

Robert J. Richardsand Michael Ruse , Debating Darwin. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. Pp. xvi + 299. ISBN 978-0-226-38442-9. £21.00/$30.00 (cloth).

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Matthew J. Crawford , The Andean Wonder Drug: Cinchona Bark and Imperial Science in the Spanish Atlantic, 1630–1800. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016. Pp. xi + 284. ISBN 978-0-8229-4452-2. $45.00 (hardback).

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