The Ling Space's video: How Can Sentences Work Like Adjectives The Syntax and Semantics of Relative Clauses

We can put whole clauses inside other phrases, but what does that do to their structure and their meaning? In this week's episode, we take a look at the syntax and semantics of relative clauses: how these clauses kind of look like adjectives; how using them creates islands from which words can't escape; and how moving things around in them throws semantic variables into the sentence setup. This is Topic ! This week's tag language: Tajik! Related videos: What's the Structure Behind a Sentence? X' Theory: https://youtu.be/7UOcoQr0hvg How Do We Build Meaning with Math? Set Theory and Adjectives: https://youtu.be/M96aiDk2ePw What Questions Can't We Ask? Syntactic Islands: https://youtu.be/01uH4XfJx3g Last episode: How Do Verbs Cause Things? Splitting the Verb Phrase: https://youtu.be/lY1X2BnjmNI Other of our syntax videos: How Can We Tell What Roles Nouns Play? Case Theory: https://youtu.be/8Xi81H80J-w What Changes in a Sentence When We Swap Verbs? Raising and Control Verbs: https://youtu.be/SYoYNeaSYrU How Do Pronouns Even Work? Binding Theory: https://youtu.be/9sqm_cex4kA Our website also has extra content about this week's topic, on other kinds of relative clauses, at: http://www.thelingspace.com/episode-89/ Find us on all the social media worlds: Tumblr: http://thelingspace.tumblr.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/TheLingSpace Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thelingspace/ And at our website, http://www.thelingspace.com/ ! You can also find our store at the website, https://thelingspace.storenvy.com/ We also have forums to discuss this episode, and linguistics more generally. Sources: Much of the material in this week's episode is based on Semantics in Generative Grammar, by Irene Heim and Angelika Kratzer. The material's also well-covered in Elizabeth Coppock's Semantics Boot Camp (http://eecoppock.info/semantics-boot-camp.pdf), and Anders Schoubye's Formal Semantics Notes (http://schoubye.org/teaching/Formal-Semantics/FormalSemanticsNotes2014.pdf). Looking forward to next time!