Relatives in scientific English: Variation across time and space

Abstract

Relative clauses have been studied from various perspectives, including their historical development from contact clauses (e.g. Suárez-Gómez 2006), changes in the inventory and choice of relative pronouns as well as different types of relative clause (e.g. Mustanoja 1960). Variationist studies have looked at relative clauses in regional varieties (see Sigley 1997), spoken and written language (e.g. Ball 1996) and different text types (e.g. Biber et al. 2009 or Johansson 2006). Linguists interested in the study of grammatical complexit Show more