The puzzling nuanced status of who free relative clauses in English: a follow-up to Patterson and Caponigro (2015)
This squib challenges Patterson & Caponigro's (2015, this journal) claim that there are few acceptable free relative clauses with who. We show that free relatives with who are generally acceptable when they are ‘transparent’ free relatives or complements of a copula, and add further nuance...
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| 语言: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2021
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