• The following sections of A Comprehensive Grammar of The English Language (Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, Jan Svartik, Longman, London & New York, 1985) were consulted in preparing this entry:
the grammatical hierarchy
2.7, 42
constituents
2.4, 39
embedding
2.8, 43
functional classification
2.46, 78
simple sentences
14.1; 987
embedding of relative clauses (infinitely complex noun phrases)
17.1, 1238