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Published 2010. This book sheds new light on Appositive Relative Clauses (ARCs), a structure that is generally studied from a merely syntactic point of
view, in opposition to ...
Published 2010. This book sheds new light on Appositive Relative Clauses (ARCs), a structure that is generally studied from a merely syntactic point of
view, in opposition to Determinative (or Restrictive) Relative Clauses (DRCs).
In this volume, ARCs are examined from a discourse/pragmatic point of view, independently of DRCs, in order to provide a positive definition of the
structure. After a presentation of the morphosyntactic, semantic and pragmatic characteristics of ARCs, a taxonomy of their functions in discourse is
established for both written and spoken English based on the results of a corpus-based investigation.
Constraints are then defined within an information-packaging approach to syntactic structures to show why speakers choose ARCs over other competing
allostructures, i.e. syntactic structures that fulfil similar discourse functions (e.g. nominal appositives, independent clauses, adverbials, noun
premodifiers, topicalization).
The end result is a deeper understanding of the richness of ARCs in their natural contexts of use.Hardback
