ABSTRACT
Grammarians of all persuasions have regularly commented on the distinction among qualifying phrases between restrictive and non-restrictive use; this sometimes has important consequences for interpretation. We should, therefore, take the time needed to consider how this distinction fits into the framework of our discussion in this book, which we do in Sections 7.1 and 7.2. In Section 7.3, we point out that an earlier finding of this text means that a very widespread traditional way of thinking about restriction is incorrect; we also look at the interaction between the notion of restriction and associatives, sense- qualifiers and separatives. In Section 7.4 we look at the special case of inherently restrictive adjectives.
