That our author is not only entertaining, but also provocative, because of the number of embedded clauses in his text?

The first sentence below carries that presupposition, even though the phrase occurs inside an embedded clause.

An embedded clause can also function as a predicative expression.

How the role of the shared noun phrase is indicated in the embedded clause.

The embedded clause is placed after the head noun "the man".

There are four main strategies for indicating the role of the shared noun phrase in the embedded clause.

Also unlike English, the reflexive can refer to antecedents outside of the embedded clause.

Germanic languages differ with respect to word order in embedded clauses.

Constituents can also be taken from embedded clauses.

In other words, extraposition cannot occur out of an embedded clause: