Verbless clauses are comprised, semantically, of a predicand, expressed or not, and a verbless predicate. For example, the underlined string in [With the children so sick,] we've been at home a lot means the same thing as the clause the children are so sick. It attributes the predicate "so sick" to the predicand "the children". In most contexts, *the children so sick would be ungrammatical.
Verblessclauses are comprised, semantically, of a predicand, expressed or not, and a verbless predicate. For example, the underlined string in [With the...
English clause may be verbless.: 222 The idea of what qualifies varies between theories and has changed over time. The earliest use of the word clause in...
the VP. The predicate here is the VP in the relative clause modifier was right. In verblessclauses, a predicate may be a constituent such as prepositional...
subject-predicate order. Predicates in verblessclauses can be adjectives or nouns, possessors, adpositionals, or adverbs. Verblessclause example: Miringmi gum bardakurrumi...
and O and on the argument nominal of a verblessclause. A more detailed explanation is below. Complement clauses are introduced by the subordinator sapu;...
verb ili "exist" (perfective lli/a) is usually omitted, leaving a verblessclause: ex: darnɣ with.us argan EL-argan ar it.is.growing inkkr in ɣ EA-forest...
structure grammar – Type of grammar based on constituent entities Verblessclause – Generative grammar Brame (2004). Kim (2010). "Editors". Linguistic...
Orientalia Rheno-Traiectina. 35: 229. Watson, W.G.E. (2002). "The VerblessClause in Biblical Hebrew: Linguistic Approaches". Journal of Semitic Studies...
where everyone love the same person. Considering only verbless small clauses, small clauses are only accessibly with the wide range of scope with respect...
According to CamGEL, a clause is a kind of phrase headed by a VP,: 50 but CamGEL includes a discussion of "verblessclauses", which lack a head VP.: 1266–1268 ...
subject or if a subject pronoun does not follow the verb (as in a verblessclause, or as the subject of the copula, where the pronoun stands at the end...
the scope of a counterfactual operator Excluded from nominalisations No verbless directional phrase complements No VP-anaphora No separation in wh-clefts...
slightly revised. This appears within chapter 14, "Non-finite and verblessclauses", attributed to Huddleston alone. Jespersen provides lists of where...
pp. 5–35, doi:10.2143/ANES.36.0.525778 Andersen (1970), The Hebrew VerblessClause in the Pentateuch, JBLMS, vol. 14, Nashville, TN: Abingdon Andersen...
separate clauses together. Simple clause chaining can be used either for clauses of the same or different subject and for both verbal and verblessclauses. [Ekrau...
361. ISBN 1-57586-400-2. Huddleston, Rodney (2002). "Non-finite and verblessclauses". In Huddleston, Rodney; Pullum, Geoffrey K. (eds.). The Cambridge...
stand-alone utterance of negation ('no'), and also for negation of elliptical, verbless sentences and for contrastive negation of individual constituents: Κάλεσα...
Bound verbal morphology is also predominantly Kriol-derived. Verblessclauses: Ascriptive clauses consist of a subject noun and nominalised adjective. ankaj...
re-): imi-re i-tu-re "(as for me,) I'm going". They are also used in "verbless" sentences (for which see below): ema-re-o "here it is / this is it". Bound...
null present tense copula which syntactically precedes the subject in verbless sentences, or whether there is simply no verb, only a subject and predicate...
sentences include declarative verbal sentences, stative verbal sentences, and verbless declarative sentences. Questions have no special morphological marking...
ma bed, That's me awa hame, A'll intae the hoose an see him. Verbless subordinate clauses introduced by an (and) express surprise or indignation. She haed...
as a shape/visual image, usually of the topic. Slam Sound Spoken-word Verbless poetry: a poem without verbs Ars Poetica: a poem that explains the 'art...
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