How Can Sentences Work Like Adjectives? The Syntax and Semantics of Relative Clauses

Описание: We can put whole clauses inside other phrases, but what does that do to their structure and their meaning? In this week's episode, we take a look at the syntax and semantics of relative clauses: how these clauses kind of look like adjectives; how using them creates islands from which words can't escape; and how moving things around in them throws semantic variables into the sentence setup.

This is Topic #89!

This week's tag language: Tajik!

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Sources:
Much of the material in this week's episode is based on Semantics in Generative Grammar, by Irene Heim and Angelika Kratzer.

The material's also well-covered in Elizabeth Coppock's Semantics Boot Camp (http://eecoppock.info/semantics-boot-..., and Anders Schoubye's Formal Semantics Notes (http://schoubye.org/teaching/Formal-S....

Looking forward to next time!