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A restrictive relative clause (RRC hereafter), which is also known as a defining relative
clause, gives essential information about a noun that comes before it: without this clause
the sentence wouldn’t make much sense. A RRC can be introduced by that, which,
whose, who, or whom. Givon (1993, 1995), Fox (1987), Fox and Thompson (1990) state
that a RCC is used for two main functions: grounding and description. When a RRC
serves the function of linking the current referent to the preceding utterance in the
discourse, it does a grounding function; and when the information coded in a RRC is
associated with the prior proposition frame, the RRC does a proposition-linking
grounding function. Furthermore, when a RRC is not used to ground a new di
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