Open AccessNon-restrictive relative clauses in Construction Based HPSG
Author(s) -
Doug Arnold
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
proceedings of the international conference on head-driven phrase structure grammar
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1535-1793
DOI - 10.21248/hpsg.2004.2
Subject(s) - relative clause , dependent clause , computer science , syntax , head driven phrase structure grammar , linguistics , intuition , semantics (computer science) , contrast (vision) , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , programming language , generative grammar , philosophy , epistemology , sentence
This paper presents an account of English non-restrictive (ˋappositive') relativeclauses (NRCs) in the framework of ˋconstruction based' HPSG.Specifically, it shows how the account of restrictive relative clauseconstructions presented in Sag (1997) can be extended to provide an account of thesyntax and semantics of NRCsand of the main differences between NRCs and restrictive relatives.The analysis reconciles the semantic intuition thatNRCs behave like independent clauses with their subordinate syntax. A significantpoint is that, in contrast with many other approaches, it employs only existing,independently motivated theoretical apparatus, and requires absolutely no newstructures, features, or types.