Relative clauses are bound clauses that modify NPs and occasionally CPs. The former are adjoined to NPs. A relative clause contains a WH-phrase which moves and is adjoined to CP: The student who likes ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A historical study of variation in the relative clause marker in Scottish English indicates that sociolinguistic methodology has some ...

Both are perfectly correct and sound perfectly natural in this example, so use either or both. Generally speaking, the participial clause, starting with -ing or -ed, is more characteristic of written ...

Vol. 29, No. 2, SPECIAL ISSUE: The Acquisition of Relative Clauses and the Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy: A Universal in SLA? (June 2007), pp. 367-374 (8 pages) Studies in Second Language ...