2.2.4 Relative Clause
A relative clause is a clause that started with relative pronoun and it is a clause that follows the noun immediately Klingemann 1987:16. Relative clause
shows which or what kind of person or thing is intended by the speaker Murphy, 1985. Quirk et al 1985:1244-1245 distinguish relative clause into two types:
restrictive and nonrestrictive relative clause. Relative clauses are typically found after a noun phrase and provide some
information about the person or thing indicated by that noun phrase Yule, 1998:240. For example:
I see a girl who loves book
Green, 2005 : 83 The main clause of the example above is I see a girl, and the relative
clause is who loves book. The relative clause who loves book in the example above provides some information about the noun phrase a girl. The relative clause
shows that a girlthat being discussed in that sentence is a girl who loves book.
2.2.5 Wh-movement
Haegeman 1994:305 distinguished three types of movement, those are: headed movement, wh-movement and NP-movement. Headed-movement is the
movement of auxiliaries, wh-movement is the movement of wh-constituent and NP-movement is the movement associated with passive in which the NP move to
an empty subject position. The landing site of movement is an empty position. Haegeman 1994 stated that the relative clause is a result of wh-
movement. Wh-movement is the movement of wh-constituent to the specifier of CP [spec, CP] or subordinator of the subordinate clause [Rel, S
]. Moreover,
Haegeman argued that the wh-movement leaves a trace in its original position that coindexed with the moved element. A trace is an empty category that occupies a
position in syntactic structure. It occupies an empty position which is left behind when some element are moved.
2.3 Theoretical Framework
Theoretical framework is about the theories which were used in analyzing the data. In this study there are two things to be discussed: structure of relative
clauses, types of relative clauses.
2.3.1 Structure of Relative Clause
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