To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list"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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SUNY Fredonia
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