Appositive relative clause

The term appositive relative clause is sometimes used in the same sense as nonrestrictive relative clause.

Example
English My only brother Pedro, who is a Catholic priest, lives in Lima. (Contrasting with a restrictive relative clause, e.g. The woman who wants to become an Anglican priest is my cousin.)

Polysemy
The term appositive is also used in the context of
 * apposition (a kind of NP modifier)
 * appositive noun phrases

Synonym

 * nonrestrictive relative clause

Origin
Perhaps the term is due to Smith (1964).

Reference

 * Smith, Carlota S. 1964. Determiners and relative clauses in a generative grammar of English. Language 40:37-52.

Other languages

 * Russian описательное относительное придаточное предложение = описательное относительное придаточное = описательное придаточное