AbstractThis chapter has a wide scope. It begins with a survey of the syntactic techniques for clause linking, cross-linguistically. These are: restrictive relative clause constructions, non-restrictive relative clause constructions, complement clause constructions, linking words (conjunctions, etc.), and nominalisations. There is then consideration of thirteen types of semantic relations between clauses, and the varied syntactic means which English and Dyirbal employ for expressing them. The grammar of the two varieties of relative clauses in Dyirbal is then described. And the nine kinds of meaning which they express. The final section deals with a relative clause being used as an independent sentence.