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CHAPTER 6
RELATIVE CLAUSES AND FOCUS SENTENCES
Focus sentences have several similarities to relative
clauses. For this reason they are treated in the same
chapter with relative clauses. They are discussed in the
second part of this chapter.
6.1 Relative Claim
Relative clauses are of two types: restrictive and non-
restrictive (or appositive). Our main concern here is
restrictive relative clauses. Non-restrictive relative
clauses are also discussed at the end of this section, but
only briefly.
A relative clause is a sentence embedded as modifier of
an NP. In terms of tree structure, an Acehnese relative
clause has a right branching structure. When an NP is
relativized, it is placed before the relative clause, which
is usually preceded by the relative marker nvanq. glossed
variously 'who, which, that.' For example, when the NP
ureueng kamoe 'our people' in (1) is relativized, the
resulting sentence is (2) , where ureueng kamoe functions as
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