The classification of relative clauses: limits, solutions and a new proposal

This paper reviews the principal way in which relative have been classified in the Hispanic world with the purpose of establisshing possible equivalences beetween them. Mention is also made of the principal problems the different proposals present and which are frequently a consequence of including...

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Author: Álvarez García, Esther
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2021
Country:México
Institution:EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO
Repository:Nueva revista de Filología Hispánica
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:oai.nrfh.colmex.mx:article/3745
Online Access:https://nrfh.colmex.mx/index.php/nrfh/article/view/3745
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:relative clauses,
classification of relative clauses,
Spanish gramar,
relative constructions,
linguistic historiography
oraciones de relativo,
clasificación de oraciones,
gramática del español,
estructuras con relativo,
historiografía lingüística
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Summary:This paper reviews the principal way in which relative have been classified in the Hispanic world with the purpose of establisshing possible equivalences beetween them. Mention is also made of the principal problems the different proposals present and which are frequently a consequence of including only prototypical examples in any given classification and thereby leaving aside a wide variety of relative constructions. Finally, we propose our own classification of relative clauses with the aim of solving the problems previously presented.