SIL International Home

French/English Glossary of Linguistic Terms

Tip: use * as a wildcard.
Filter =

French word list

up

  phonologisation
  phonologue
  phonométrie
  phonostylistique
  phonotactique
  phonotaxe
  phrase
  phrase agrammaticale
  phrase analytique
  phrase complète
  phrase grammaticale
  phrase injonctive
  phrase non verbale
  phrase potentielle
  phrase sans verbe

down

Tip: use * as a wildcard.

English

relative (clause)

Fr    phrase relative, proposition relative, relative, subordonnée relative

nS

Kinds: adjectival relative clause, appositive relative clause, defining relative clause, explanatory relative clause, non(-)restrictive relative clause, non-defining relative clause, restrictive relative clause

Type of: subordinate clause

Related term(s): adjectival clause, adjective clause, relative pronoun

Domain: Syntax

Source(s): Benveniste 1971[trans.]: 181ff.; Chomsky 1981: 167-168 (also "infinitival relative", "clausal relative"); Chomsky 1982: 73-74; Clark & Clark 1977: 10-11, 69; Comrie 1981: 135-137; Crystal 2003: 394-395 (also "sentential relative", "zero relative", "contact relative"); DIK II 1997: 25-26; Doke 1935: 65; Ducrot & Todorov 1979[trans.]: 282; ELL: 3520-3524; Haegeman 1991: 370f., 420f.; Hartmann & Stork 1972: 195; Kroeger 2005: 89, 230f. (also "externally headed relative clause", "internally headed relative clause", "post-nominal/post-posed relative clause", "prenominal/pre-posed relative clause", "correlative relative clause"); Matthews 1997: 316; Palmatier 1972: 145-146 (also "sentential relative clause", "relative clause transformation"); Pei & Gaynor 1954: 185; Quirk etal. 1985: 1048, 1244ff.; Richards etal. 1992: 314; Ruwet 1973[trans.]: 170-171; Trask 1993: 238; Wales 1989: 64

Sub-entries:


English word list

up

  relational
  relational antonym
  relational organization
  relation(s)
  relationship
  relationship (between languages)
  relative
relative (clause)
  relative motivation
  relative tense
  relative transformation
  relativity
  relativization
  relativize
  relator

down

Tip: use * as a wildcard.