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Studia Romanica et Anglica Zagrabiensia : Revue publiée par les Sections romane, italienne et anglaise de la Faculté des Lettres de l’Université de Zagreb, Vol. 31-32 No. -, 1986.

Original scientific paper

Ambivalence of Relative Clause Structure - a Diachronic View

Dora Maček

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Abstract

A view is taken of the relative clause as a structure that cannot be sharply defined, but rather whose borderlines run into coordinate structures at one end, and into compact noun phrases at the other. The explicitness that is lost along this line is made up for by the development of explicit connecting words. This is illustrated from the history o relative clauses in English, German, Swedish, Serbo-Croatian and Slovene.

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Hrčak ID:

121615

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/121615

Publication date:

26.10.1987.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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