Appositiverelative clauses and their functions in discourse.
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The lexical semantics of parenthetical-as andappositive-which.
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Anappositivecolon also separates the subtitle of a work from its principal title.
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They may also include such techniques as inversion or such structures asappositivephrases, verbal phrases (gerund, participle, and infinitive), and subordinate clauses (noun, adjective, and adverb).
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More specifically, it consists of a noun or pronoun and either a past participle, a present participle, an adjective, or anappositivenoun, all in the ablative.
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A relevant example can be seen in the relative ordering of restrictive versusappositiveadjuncts.
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Appositivestructures, conjunctions, disjunctions and the like are all handled by minor blocks.
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The key task is to determine the relation between the two constituents in terms of such functional categories as subject, object, adverbial andappositive.
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The category 'appositive' is not taken into account for fair comparison.
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However, they did not take into accountappositiveadnoun clauses but only considered relative adnoun clauses.
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Theappositiverelative, on the other hand, involves no such referential reduction, and the head receives its reference independently of theappositive.
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Theappositiveanalysis that brings together the paradigm case in and + above is predicated on the assumption that these latter constructions exhibit absolute syntactic and semantic equivalence.
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The chapter on nouns, for example, identifies five species (common, proper, collective, concrete, abstract) and five applications (subject, complement of verb, object of preposition,appositive, direct address).
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Thus, for instance, if what is taken to be criterial for apposition is functional equivalence, then instances such as and above would beappositive, but not, for instance, and.
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If there is any doubt that theappositiveis non-restrictive, it is safer use the restrictive form.
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