Correct. Both relative clauses are restrictive, and the appositive is
nonrestrictive.

Dick Veit

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Natalie Gerber <[log in to unmask]
> wrote:

>  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
>
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