Cross-linguistic studies on relative constructions in European languages are often centred on standard varieties as described in reference grammars. This volume

In many European languages the National Standard Variety is converging with spoken, informal, and socially marked varieties. In Italian this process is giving r

This book gives an analysis of relative clauses as they evolve throughout the history of (Mainland) Scandinavian, from Ancient Nordic to Early Modern Norwegian.

Conceptually, the volume focuses on the relationship of the three key notions that essentially triggered the inception and subsequent realization of this projec

Relative clauses play a hugely important role in analysing the structure of sentences. This book provides the first evidence that a unified analysis of the diff