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    Syntactic category of the antecedent
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    Restrictive relative clauses necessarily have an antecedent of the category Noun Phrase (NP), whereas non-restrictive relatives can also target other syntactic categories.

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    In the example below, a non-restrictive relative clause targets a clause:

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    Hy woe neat sizze, wat de plysje kûgelsk makke
    he wanted nothing say which the police very.angry made
    He did not want to say anything, which made the police very angry

    However, the intended meaning would normally be expressed in a coordinate structure involving a topic pronoun, and that is clearly preferred in spoken language:

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    Hy woe neat sizze, en dat makke de plysje kûgelsk
    he wanted nothing say and that made the police very.angry
    He did not want to say anything, which made the police very angry

    Restrictive relative clauses cannot target a clause. They are only found with antecedents of the category NP.

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      Author(s): Eric Hoekstra
      Category: Frisian Syntax
      Keywords: antecedent
      Version: 1.0, December 2015
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