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A relevant example can be seen in the relative ordering of restrictive versus appositive adjuncts.
Appositive structures, conjunctions, disjunctions and the like are all handled by minor blocks.
The key task is to determine the relation between the two constituents in terms of such functional categories as subject, object, adverbial and appositive.
The category 'appositive' is not taken into account for fair comparison.
However, they did not take into account appositive adnoun clauses but only considered relative adnoun clauses.
The appositive relative, on the other hand, involves no such referential reduction, and the head receives its reference independently of the appositive.
The appositive analysis that brings together the paradigm case in and + above is predicated on the assumption that these latter constructions exhibit absolute syntactic and semantic equivalence.
The chapter on nouns, for example, identifies five species (common, proper, collective, concrete, abstract) and five applications (subject, complement of verb, object of preposition, appositive, direct address).
Thus, for instance, if what is taken to be criterial for apposition is functional equivalence, then instances such as and above would be appositive, but not, for instance, and.
If there is any doubt that the appositive is non-restrictive, it is safer use the restrictive form.
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