relative (adj./n.) (rel, REL)

A term used in GRAMMATICAL DESCRIPTION to characterize PRONOUNS which may be used to introduce a POSTMODIFYING CLAUSE within a NOUN PHRASE, and by extension to the clause as a whole (relative clauses). Relative pronouns in English include who, which, whom, whose and that (see WH-), as used in such relative clauses as the man who went was . . . When and where are sometimes called relative adverbs, when linking a relative clause to a MAIN clause (e.g. I remember the day (when) I first saw John, I remember the street where I lived as a child). Several detailed CLASSIFICATIONS of relative pronouns and clauses have been made, distinguishing such types as: adnominal (e.g. The answer which I received . . . ); nominal or free, which have no HEAD, and are therefore sometimes called headless (What interests me is his motive . . . ); sentential (e.g. It’s said she’s back in the country – which I just don’t believe); and zero or contact relatives (e.g. There’s the bus I caught). Widely recognized in TRADITIONAL as well as in LINGUISTIC grammars is the contrast between restrictive (or defining) and non-restrictive (or non-defining) types of relative: The Bible which I own was given to me by my grandmother v. The Bible, which I often read, is my favorite book. In classical TRANSFORMATIONAL GRAMMAR, the process of forming a relative-clause CONSTRUCTION is known as relativization.

A term used in linguistic theory to refer to a type of UNIVERSAL. A relative universal is one which characterizes a general tendency in a language, and allows for exceptions; it contrasts with ABSOLUTE universal.

A term used in HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS, referring to one way of characterizing the temporal relationship between language changes: to say that one change occurs before another is a statement of relative chronology. A contrast is intended with absolute chronology, where it is possible to state the specific time-periods when the changes took place.

اخر الاخبار

اخبار العتبة العباسية المقدسة

فرقة العباس تنظم مجلس عزائها السنوي بذكرى شهادة النبي (صلى الله عليه وآله) في النجف

قسم الشؤون الفكرية وجامعة الكوفة يعقدان شراكة علمية لتدريب الطلبة على صيانة المخطوطات وحفظها

بالتزامن مع ذكرى شهادته.. قسم الشؤون الفكرية يصدر كتابًا عن النبي الأعظم (صلى الله عليه وآله)

بالصور.. جموع المؤمنين تحيي ذكرى شهادة الرسول الأكرم عند مرقد الإمام علي (صلوات الله عليهما)

المزيد

الآخبار الصحية

لون أسنانك يتحدث عن صحتك.. إليك ما يقول

عادة يومية بسيطة تخفض الكوليسترول وتحمي القلب

الزنجبيل.. دواء سحري لحماية القلب

المشروبات شديدة السخونة.. "خطر خفي" يهدد صحتك

المزيد

الآخبار التكنلوجية

كيف يمكن لعادات القيادة السيئة أن تؤثر على قيمة سيارتك

في طوفان الذكاء الاصطناعي.. نصائح لحجز "تذكرة النجاة"

هكذا يسرق "قراصنة الذكاء الاصطناعي" المليارات بطرق بسيطة

فيديو لانفجار كرة نارية في سماء اليابان.. ما تفسير ذلك؟

المزيد

مواضيع ذات صلة

Word Order- Classifiers and phrasal dependents in DP

Word order- Suffixal Pl and Art

Syntax Word order and restrictive vs. nonrestrictive modification

Syntax

Language Mixture—Grammar

Change in grammar and pronunciation

Word order

Grammaticalization.

Convergence in the Balkans

Did we lose the perfect tense already?

It’s grammaticalization, innit?

Haugen’s model