Postmodification of Nouns by Relative and Appositive Clauses in Newspaper Reports

Abstract

This paper focuses on the use of clausal structures in the function of noun postmodifiers in newspaper reports. In the theoretical part, the discourse of newspaper reporting is described, attention being paid to the role of nominalization and nominal postmodification in newspaper articles. Then, the notion of noun phrase is introduced, with focus on clausal postmodifiers and possible variants of their realization. In the practical part, the analysis of selected English broadsheet newspapers is carried out. Overall occurrence of individual types of clausal postmodifiers is closely examined, with regard to both the frequency and communicative function.