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In:Noun-Modifying Clause Constructions in Languages of Eurasia: Rethinking theoretical and geographical boundaries
Edited by Yoshiko Matsumoto, Bernard Comrie and Peter Sells
[Typological Studies in Language 116] 2017
► pp. 339–353

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Appendix 1
Examples to explore in noun-modifying constructions

Published online: 28 February 2017

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.116.app1

Article outline

A.Basic structures
- background
- questions/ examples
B.Detailed elicitation of NMCs
- B1.Relative clause equivalents
- B2.Sentential complement of noun
  - Nouns of communication as head
  - Nouns of thoughts and feeling as head
  - Other content-taking nouns as head
- B3.Other types of NMC
  - Relational nouns as head
  - Spatial or temporal relational head nouns
  - Quasi-relational nouns as head
  - Nouns of perception as head
C.Questions regarding syntactic constraints
- questions examples
- further elaboration
  - 1.Adjunct islands
  - 2.Sentential subjects as potential islands
  - 3.Complex noun phrase islands
  - 4.Wh-islands
  - 5.Coordinate constructions as islands