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From: Mark Barton <mbarton@icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Subject: Classification of Relative Pronouns
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As I understand things, a relative pronoun is a word such as "that", 
"which", "who" etc, which forms the subject of a relative clause, e.g. 
"This is the car *that* I bought yesterday." The question is, can these 
words also be classified as subordinating conjunctions? If not, is there
a convenient term which includes both, i.e. is there a term for the class 
of words which mark non-principal clauses?

Cheers,

Mark B.
