main clause

Related Term(s)

Sources

• NASH 1968 134, 190 (principal clause)

  NASH, Rose. (1968) Multilingual Lexicon of Linguistics and Philology: English, Russian, German, French. Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press. 

• TRASK 1993 166

  TRASK, R. L. (1993) A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics. New York: Routledge.

• HARTMANN & STORK 1972 136 (= independent clause)

  HARTMANN, R.R.K. & STORK, F.C. (1972) Dictionary of Language and Linguistics. London: Applied Science Publishers.

• GIVON 1984 118

  GIVON, Talmy. (1984) Syntax: A Functional-Typological Introduction, Vols. I & II. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

• MATTHEWS 1981 170

  MATTHEWS, P.H. (1981) Syntax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• PALMATIER 1972 91

  PALMATIER, Robert A. (1972) A Glossary for English Transformational Grammar. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.

• AKMAJIAN etal. 1984 216

  AKMAJIAN, Adrian, DEMERS, Richard A., & HARNISH, Robert M. (1984) Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication, 2nd Ed. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

• QUIRK etal. 1985 987-990 (also "superordinate clause")

  QUIRK, Randolph, GREENBAUM, Sidney, LEECH, Geoffrey, & SVARTNIK, Jan. (1985) A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. London: Longman.

• WALES 1989 64

  WALES, Katie. (1989) A Dictionary of Stylistics. London: Longman. 

• COOK 1969 66 (= independent clause)

  COOK, Walter C. (1969) Introduction to Tagmemic Analysis. Washington: Georgetown University Press.

• RADFORD 1988 295 (= non-embedded Clause, principal Clause, root Clause, independent Clause)

  RADFORD, Andrew. (1988) Transformational Grammar: A First Course. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

• DIK 1978 183f.

  DIK, Simon C. (1978) Functional Grammar. Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Co.

• Clark & Clark 1977 10-11, 68-69 (vs. non-main clause)

  CLARK, Herbert H. & Eve V. (1977) Psychology and Language: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich.

• MARTINET 1962 50

  MARTINET, André. (1962) A Functional View of Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• DOKE 1935 142

  DOKE, Clement M. (1935) Bantu Linguistic Terminology. London: Longmans, Green, & Co.

• ELL 4153

  The Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics. (1994) Oxford: Pergamon Press.

• MATTHEWS 1997 215

  MATTHEWS, P.H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• CRYSTAL 2003 74 (= superordinate clause), 280

  CRYSTAL, David. (2003) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 5th Ed Oxford: Blackwell.

• RICHARDS etal. 1992 102 (= principal clause)

  RICHARDS, Jack, PLATT, J. & WEBER, H. (1992) Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching & Applied Linguistics. London: Longman.