Talk:Non-restrictive clause

Why should the article on grammar be marked as too technical for readers to understand? There is no possible expertise in grammar. Only those who may know more about the history of grammar but no such thing as a grammar expert. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.151.185.56 (talk) 16:48, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
 * The first, defining sentence contains a number of words that many readers (non-linguists) probably don't understand: "noun phrase, referent, anaphor, antecedant, peripheral/non-essential, constituent" – even with the wikilinks it's rather difficult to figure out what that means unless you've already known beforehand.
 * And yes, there are linguists that specialise in grammar; they even give lectures in universities :-) --ἀνυπόδητος (talk) 16:59, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

Concerning reference
I think the parenthetical information in the article "(as the referent of an anaphor, meaning that it is substituted by another word but refers to the same noun)" is incorrect. Reference is a relationship holding between language and the domain of discourse. An anaphor does not refer to a noun. It refers to a concept or entity in the domain of discourse. The "another word" refers to the same concept or entity. The anaphor and word are coreferential but they do not refer to one another (that would be a link between two units of language, not language and the domain of discourse). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.220.228.48 (talk) 14:26, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Grammar problem with first sentence
There appears to be a grammatical problem with the first sentence. Generally if I remove a pair of parentheses and its contents, the remainder should still make sense, but if I do that here I get: Should there be another word between "avoid repetition" and "is determined". My technical knowledge of grammar is not good enough to understand what is intended and thus fix the problem myself. Mitch Ames (talk) 02:55, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

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