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A reduced relative clause is a relative clause that is ''not'' marked by an explicit relative pronoun or complementizer such as ''who'', ''which'' or ''that''. An example: the clause ''I saw'' in the English sentence "This is the man ''I saw''." (Unreduced forms of this relative clause would be "This is the man ''that I saw'', or ...''who I saw'', ...''whom I saw''.") Another form of reduced relative clause is the "reduced object passive relative clause", a type of nonfinite clause headed by a past participle, such as the clause ''found here'' in: "The animals ''found here'' can be dangerous." Reduced relative clauses are given to ambiguity or garden path effects, and have been a common topic of psycholinguistic study, especially in the field of sentence processing. ==Finite types== Regular relative clauses are a class of dependent clause (or "subordinate clause") that usually modify a noun. 〔Li & Thompson 1981:579–580.〕〔Carrol 2008:294.〕 They are typically introduced by one of the relative pronouns ''who'', ''whom'', ''whose'', ''what'', or ''which''and, in English, by the word ''that'',〔 which may be analyzed either as a relative pronoun or as a relativizer (complementizer); see That a relativizer.〔 Reduced relative clauses have no such relative pronoun or complementizer introducing them.〔Carrol 2008:136.〕 The example below contrasts an English non-reduced relative clause and reduced relative clause. Because of the omission of function words, the use of reduced relative clauses, particularly when nested, can give rise to sentences which, while theoretically correct grammatically, are not readily parsed by listeners. A well-known example put forward by linguists is "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo", which contains the reduced relative clause ''Buffalo buffalo buffalo'' (meaning "which buffalo from Buffalo (do) buffalo"). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Reduced relative clause」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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