Dear all,

 

May I ask for your help parsing the relative clause in the following
example?

 

James Bunley, a Washington attorney who served as the last
Transportation secretary in the Reagan administration in 1987089, says
the complexity of Next-Gen is one of the reasons the new system hasn't
gained funding.

 

I analyze this example as a restrictive relative clause specifying which
Washington attorney; i.e., a restrictive relative clause modifying an
appositive, which itself is a nonrestrictive element modifying the
proper noun James Bunley. Is this correct?

 

Thanks very much,

Natalie

____________________

Natalie Gerber, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of English

SUNY Fredonia

ph. (716) 673-3855

fax (716) 673-4661

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