A constraint-based analysis of relative clause extraposition
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This paper aims to provide a constraint-based analysis of relative clause extraposition (hereafter RCE) with the help of 597 tokens from BYU-BNC and COCA. In corpus findings, indefiniteness of subject NP and passive voice are salient. The grammatical weight of relative clause is the heaviest, thus being a very likely trigger for the extraposition. Discourse-New-Old-RCE is the most frequent type, implying that discourse-old information tends to be delivered in extraposed clause. As well, the extraposition is assumed to be employed in order to maximize focus effect on main predicate. All these corpus findings are well described in the system of sign-based construction grammar which enables multiple constraints to be inherited into RCE construction through inheritance hierarchy. Head-Extra Construction leads nonlocal EXTRA feature to be percolated up to sentential node. Consequently, the extraposition comes in with the help of constraints from stative-v, decl-cl, re-cl, and hd-noun-extra-cx.
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This paper aims to provide a constraint-based analysis of relative clause extraposition (hereafter RCE) with the help of 597 tokens from BYU-BNC and COCA. In corpus findings, indefiniteness of subject NP and passive voice are salient. The grammatical weight of relative clause is the heaviest, thus being a very likely trigger for the extraposition. Discourse-New-Old-RCE is the most frequent type, implying that discourse-old information tends to be delivered in extraposed clause. As well, the extraposition is assumed to be employed in order to maximize focus effect on main predicate. All these corpus findings are well described in the system of sign-based construction grammar which enables multiple constraints to be inherited into RCE construction through inheritance hierarchy. Head-Extra Construction leads nonlocal EXTRA feature to be percolated up to sentential node. Consequently, the extraposition comes in with the help of constraints from stative-v, decl-cl, re-cl, and hd-noun-extra-cx.
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