Tipología de las oraciones de relativo

Abstract

This article studies the different types of relative clauses and the latest generative analyses of them, to conclude that only one distinction is relevant: that between restrictive and non-restrictive clauses. The differences between them may in turn be reduced to subordinate vs independent nature in the D-structure, an analysis which leads to a better understanding of their syntactic and semantic behaviour, although it poses important theoretical problems yet to be solved.