Verbless clauses are comprised, semantically, of a predicand, expressed or not, and a verbless predicate. For example, the underlined string in [With the...
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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...
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Predicand (section Verbless clauses)
the VP. The predicate here is the VP in the relative clause modifier was right. In verbless clauses, a predicate may be a constituent such as prepositional...
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Jingulu language (section Verbless clauses)
subject-predicate order. Predicates in verbless clauses can be adjectives or nouns, possessors, adpositionals, or adverbs. Verbless clause example: Miringmi gum bardakurrumi...
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Wuvulu-Aua language (section Verbless clauses)
to be exclusive to Proto-Oceanic (PO). Clause structure is categorized as verbal or verbless. A verbless clause is constructed with two nouns which are...
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According to CamGEL, a clause is a kind of phrase headed by a VP,: 50 but CamGEL includes a discussion of "verbless clauses", which lack a head VP.: 1266–1268 ...
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Roviana language (section Relative clauses)
and O and on the argument nominal of a verbless clause. A more detailed explanation is below. Complement clauses are introduced by the subordinator sapu;...
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Shilha language (section Within a clause)
verb ili "exist" (perfective lli/a) is usually omitted, leaving a verbless clause: ex: darnɣ with.us argan EL-argan ar it.is.growing inkkr in ɣ EA-forest...
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Orientalia Rheno-Traiectina. 35: 229. Watson, W.G.E. (2002). "The Verbless Clause in Biblical Hebrew: Linguistic Approaches". Journal of Semitic Studies...
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where everyone love the same person. Considering only verbless small clauses, small clauses are only accessibly with the wide range of scope with respect...
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subject or if a subject pronoun does not follow the verb (as in a verbless clause, or as the subject of the copula, where the pronoun stands at the end...
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different types of clausal structures: verbless clauses where nominals or adjectives function as head of the predicate and verbal clauses where verbs are...
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structure grammar – Type of grammar based on constituent entities Verbless clause – Generative grammar Brame (2004). Kim (2010). "Editors". Linguistic...
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on the verb is sufficient to negate the clause, but for selectional suffix main clauses, and verbless clauses, the anaphoric demonstrative occurs at the...
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slightly revised. This appears within chapter 14, "Non-finite and verbless clauses", attributed to Huddleston alone. Jespersen provides lists of where...
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Aneityum language (section Simple clause chaining)
separate clauses together. Simple clause chaining can be used either for clauses of the same or different subject and for both verbal and verbless clauses. [Ekrau...
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361. ISBN 1-57586-400-2. Huddleston, Rodney (2002). "Non-finite and verbless clauses". In Huddleston, Rodney; Pullum, Geoffrey K. (eds.). The Cambridge...
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and tatelo. Here the proximate and distal demonstrative function as verbless clause subject, whilst the intermediate demonstrative functions as a transitive...
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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...
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the scope of a counterfactual operator Excluded from nominalisations No verbless directional phrase complements No VP-anaphora No separation in wh-clefts...
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Bound verbal morphology is also predominantly Kriol-derived. Verbless clauses: Ascriptive clauses consist of a subject noun and nominalised adjective. ankaj...
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pp. 5–35, doi:10.2143/ANES.36.0.525778 Andersen (1970), The Hebrew Verbless Clause in the Pentateuch, JBLMS, vol. 14, Nashville, TN: Abingdon Andersen...
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Modern Greek grammar (section Relative clauses)
stand-alone utterance of negation ('no'), and also for negation of elliptical, verbless sentences and for contrastive negation of individual constituents: Κάλεσα...
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sentences include declarative verbal sentences, stative verbal sentences, and verbless declarative sentences. Questions have no special morphological marking...
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97(3). 520–560. (doi:10.1353/lan.2021.0046) Dobrushina, Nina. 2015. The verbless subjunctive in Russian. Scando-Slavica 61(1). 73–99. Dobrushina, Nina....
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null present tense copula which syntactically precedes the subject in verbless sentences, or whether there is simply no verb, only a subject and predicate...
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do 'The kingfisher and the fish did not do (it)' Negation in verbless equative clauses is marked by the irrealis marker mo or mu followed by the negative...
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and faulting an “awkward writing style, littered with verbless sentences […], subordinate clauses attached to the wrong noun […], clichés […] and repetitions...
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Modern Scots (section Subordinate clauses)
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...
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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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