POSTMODIFICATION BY RELATIVE CLAUSES IN TEXTS OF DIFFERENT DEGREE OF FORMALITY
POSTMODIFICATION BY RELATIVE CLAUSES IN TEXTS OF DIFFERENT DEGREE OF FORMALITY

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with postmodification by finite and non-finite relative clauses in four different text types (newspaper, academic prose, fi ction, and interview) of spoken and written English. It presents detailed descriptions of the distribution of particular structures and comparisons with their distribution in other text types. The types of postmodification (restrictive vs. non-restrictive) used in different text types were examined in order to find out to what extent they are employed in the different texts and which forms of postmodification (fi nite vs. non-finite) are used in which text type. Besides other findings, the results of the analyses show that the occurrence of fi nite and non-finite clauses as well as their basic function depends on the degree of formality of the text types.

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