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 ...

IN the preceding chapter, we compared a bound modifier to an animal species that has already arrived at its evolutionary dead-end and a free relative modifier to a species that partakes of a wide gene ...

USING relative clauses is a very convenient way to load sentences with more information. They do their job quite well when only one or two of relative clauses are involved, as in this sentence: "The ...

A relative clause can be used to give additional information about a noun. They are introduced by a relative pronoun like 'that', 'which', 'who', 'whose', 'where' and 'when'. For example: I won’t ...