| 单词 | small clause |
| 释义 | > as lemmassmall clause small clause n. Grammar a structure which resembles a clause in that it has words or phrases that are interpretable semantically as a subject plus predicate, but which contains neither a finite verb nor a to-infinitive. For example, him groan in I heard him groan and it excellent in I found it excellent. ΚΠ 1975 E. S. Williams in Syntax & Semantics 4 249 (heading) Small clauses in English. 1994 Appl. Linguistics 15 246 Quantitative examinations of the occurrences of hypotaxis versus parataxis in English discourse..have established that native speakers of English typically use a comparatively high rate of relative clauses and small clauses. 2008 Linguistics & Philos. 31 576 Nomination verbs can hardly be set apart from the verb make, which clearly takes a small clause. < as lemmas |
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