Timeline for Is this clause restrictive or non-restrictive?
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| Nov 11, 2023 at 17:43 | comment | added | TimR | The first noun phrase one of the most influential works of his time already has narrowed the set of influential works of his time down to one work. The title simply assigns an author and name to it. | |
| Nov 25, 2021 at 16:31 | vote | accept | Hypatia of Alexandria | ||
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| Dec 19, 2019 at 17:18 | answer | added | linguisticturn | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 19, 2019 at 14:59 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | The second noun phrase in the apposition certainly specifies (singles out) the actual work from the set of alternatives identifed by the first noun phrase. This is a specifying appositive rather than a renaming appositive. Were the noun phrases swapped over (probably with the colon replaced by a comma), we'd have an appositive adding incidental detail. | |
| Dec 19, 2019 at 14:57 | comment | added | John Lawler | Of course, orthography is irrelevant to grammar. The intonation would be different if the phrases were swapped, so that might vary the punctuation, but punctuation is semi-random in English anyway. | |
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| Dec 19, 2019 at 14:41 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I think it's probably relevant that although we could reverse the two "equated" noun phrases one of the most influential works of his time and John Locke's Two Treatises of Government in speech (also in the written form if it had separated them by a comma), we don't seem to be able to do that with the actual orthography as presented here. | |
| Dec 19, 2019 at 14:38 | comment | added | John Lawler | "John Locke's Two Treatises of Government" is a noun phrase, not a relative clause. It's relative clauses that can be either restrictive or non-restrictive. Noun phrases can be in apposition, however, and that's what's going on here. That noun phrase is in apposition with the noun phrase one of the most influential works of his time. That's what the colon signifies here. | |
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