Glossary term R

Relative Pronoun

A relative pronoun is a pronoun that

  • marks a relative clause
  • functions grammatically within the relative clause, and
  • is coreferential to the word modified by the relative clause.

The man who comes next

  1. Hartmann and Stork 1972, 195
  2. Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech, and Svartvik 1985, 365
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