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