MOTT, BRIAN (UB): Postmodifying prepositional phrases in English and Spanish (with special reference to locative modifiers).

Prepositional phrases are the commonest kind of postmodification in all registers of English (Biber et al. 1999: 634). The locative ones that can be expanded into a defining relative clause (the books [which are] on the table) are usually expressed by such a construction in Spanish (los libros que e...

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Main Author: Brian Mott
Format: Article
Language:Catalan
Published: CRET 2017-03-01
Series:Transfer
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Online Access:http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/transfer/article/view/17871