Dear Colleagues: last month, I sent a post regarding the phenomenon of elided relative adverbs in adverbial relative clauses modifying nouns. However, Beth Young's recent post indicates that the concept is still unknown or is considered unusual. Therefore, I am repeating my examples in this post. Neither such an elision nor such a modifying adverbial clause is uncommmon. Relative adverbs may undergo "that"replacement and Ø replacement, or elision, much like relative pronouns. the time when it happened the time that it happened the time Ø it happened the place where we met the place that we met the place Ø we met the reason why I did it the reason that I did it the reason Ø I did it Melvin Hoffman 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" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/