Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements xiii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Appositive relative clauses (ARCs)
6. Chapter 1. Definitions and previous studies 7
7. Chapter 2. Atypical appositive relative clauses 53
8. Part II. The discourse functions of ARCs
9. Chapter 3. The corpus 77
10. Chapter 4. The discourse functions of ARCs 95
11. Part III. ARCs and their competing “allostructures”
12. Chapter 5. Definition of ARCs' allostructures, with particular emphasis on nominal appositives 143
13. Chapter 6. Appositive relative clauses and their other competing allostructures 191
14. Conclusion 217
15. References 219
16. Appendix 227
17. Index 231