ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces and briefly discusses two relationships that go beyond the account of the conceptual basis of language developed thus far. These are the relationships of sign processes to the use of utterances and grammatical systems. The performance processes of producing the relative clause, on the other hand, include expanding sense indications while at the same time avoiding, as required by the Kozhevnikov and Chistovich rule, nonsensical double expansions. Aiming for such conceptual coherence creates conditions within the grammatical system of English with complex NPs that are described by the complex NP constraint. The differences between production processes and grammatical systems can be best appreciated by comparing parallel analyses of the same sentence structures. An analysis of the examples given by Ross to demonstrate these constraints in terms of grammatical form can be compared to the explanation of the same examples in terms of the effects they have on conceptual structures; and this comparison will provide the parallel analyses.
