Sur le classement des relatives adjectives

Abstract

We examine in what follows a typological issue: the classification of restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses. The establishment of their main subdivisions leans on the traditional parameters: morphology, syntax, functioning, and meaning. However, it seems that a lack of cohesiveness regularly characterizes most attempts of this classification. It is thought that those relative clauses only form a subset of a wider paradigm, which is “adnominal relative clauses” whose current definition prevents from identifying the deep unit.

Keywords

• relative clause
• adjective relative
• adnominal relative
• déterminative
• explicative
• restrictive