Timeline for Can anyone tell the function of "that" in the following sentence?
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| Dec 6, 2021 at 19:17 | comment | added | DjinTonic | It's very good, this answer. | |
| Dec 6, 2021 at 17:04 | comment | added | John Lawler | So in your terminology clefting converts the relative clause into a predicate? That's a reasonable interpretation of the function, but I don't see the need for a special term for components of clefts. | |
| Dec 6, 2021 at 7:35 | comment | added | BillJ | Yes, but it clefts are a special case where the relative clause is not a modifier but a postnucleus. | |
| Dec 5, 2021 at 19:02 | comment | added | John Lawler | In my experience relative clauses are called modifiers because they modify noun phrases. | |
| Dec 5, 2021 at 14:41 | comment | added | BillJ | I wouldn't say that the relative clause is a modifier, since it doesn't combine with its antecedent to form a syntactic constituent. In my experience it is called a postnucleus, appearing at the end of the matrix clause. | |
| Dec 5, 2021 at 0:56 | comment | added | べくギョン | Thanks for your answer. It's very professional. | |
| Dec 4, 2021 at 19:21 | history | answered | John Lawler | CC BY-SA 4.0 |