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Small clause: History, Overview & Structural analyses

In linguistics, a small clause consists of a subject and its predicate, but lacks an overt expression of tense. Small clauses have the semantic subject-predicate characteristics of a clause, and have some, but not all, properties of a syntactic constituent. Structural analyses of small clauses vary according to whether a flat or layered analysis is…

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Small clause topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Overview and Structural analyses as prominent areas in the source structure around Small clause.

Related topics
32
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
37
Extracted relationships
93
Concept neighborhoods
17
Bridge connections
37

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 21 topics
Structural analyses · 4 topics
Identification tests · 3 topics
Contexts · 2 topics
History · 2 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

History

Contexts

Structural analyses

Identification tests

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Small clause connects Entity context

The extracted context around Small clause shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Small clause → Aarts, Chomsky, Edwin Williams, In, Kitagawa, Linguists, Predication, Small Clauses, Stowell's, The, Theory, This, Tim Stowell, Williams, X-bar Another extracted example is Small clause → AP, DPs, NP, NP AP, NP DP, NP PP, NP VP, NPs, Possible, PPs, Some, The, There, XP. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Small clause

Top relations

related to history · 15
Small clause → Aarts, Chomsky, Edwin Williams, In, Kitagawa, Linguists, Predication, Small Clauses, Stowell's, The, Theory, This, Tim Stowell, Williams, X-bar
related to Absence of tense-marking · 14
Small clause → AP, DPs, NP, NP AP, NP DP, NP PP, NP VP, NPs, Possible, PPs, Some, The, There, XP
related to Layered structure · 10
Small clause → Binding, Chomsky, Culicover, Government, Guéron, Haegeman, Ouhalla, SC, The, To
related to X-Bar Theory structures · 10
Small clause → AP, Here, Mary, NP, NP AP, See X-Bar Theory, There, X-bar, X-Bar Theory, XP
related to Stowell (1981) · 8
Small clause → His, John, NP, NPs, Stowell, Timothy Stowell, We, X-bar
related to Williams (1975, 1980) · 8
Small clause → Balazs, Edwin Williams, However, John, John’s, Norton's, The, Williams
related to Contexts · 5
Small clause → ECM, In, NP, The, What
related to Raising-to-object · 3
Small clause → Complement, English, Korean
related to Structural analyses · 3
Small clause → Broadly, SC, X-bar
is a · 2
Small clause → constituent, constituent.MovementOne could argue

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

small clause clauses subject np verb example predicate structure constituent analysis consider position ap also constituents phrase complement examples theory

Small clause relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 93 structured relationships around Small clause. Examples in this analysis include Small clause → is a → constituent.MovementOne could argue and Small clause → is a → constituent. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Small clauseis aconstituent.MovementOne could argue0.90text
Small clauseis aconstituent0.90text
Chomskyinstance ofsupported by linguists0.80text
Aartsinstance ofsupported by linguists0.80text
and Kitagawainstance ofsupported by linguists0.80text
Welshinstance ofEvidence of this element can be seen as an overt realization in a variety of languages0.80text
Norwegianinstance ofEvidence of this element can be seen as an overt realization in a variety of languages0.80text
and Englishinstance ofEvidence of this element can be seen as an overt realization in a variety of languages0.80text
as in the examples belowinstance ofEvidence of this element can be seen as an overt realization in a variety of languages0.80text
I regard Fred as my best friendinstance ofThis structure answers the question of the category of the word as in small clause constructions0.80text
the ones predicted above.Lithuanianinstance ofeither coordination is not a reliable constituency test or the current theory of constituency should be revised to include strings0.80text
the ones predicted aboveinstance ofeither coordination is not a reliable constituency test or the current theory of constituency should be revised to include strings0.80text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Small clause bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Small, Clauses and Subject. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Small clause
    • Small
    • Clauses
    • Subject
    • Verb
    • Np
    • Predicate
    • Also
    • Constituent
    • Example
    • Constituents
    • Ap
    • Analysis
  • small clause
    • Small
    • Clauses
    • Subject
    • Verb
    • Predicate
    • Constituent
    • Np
    • Structure
    • Also
    • Analysis
    • Matrix
    • Object
  • clause
    • Small
    • Subject
    • Verb
    • Predicate
    • Clauses
    • Constituent
    • Np
    • Structure
    • Also
    • Analysis
    • Matrix
    • Object
  • syntactic constituent
    • X-bar
    • Structure
    • Analysis
    • Theory
    • Predicate
    • One
    • Small
    • Xp
    • Subject
    • Also
    • Information
    • Order
  • coordination (linguistics)
    • Two
    • Constituents
    • Predicate
    • Matrix
    • Theory
    • Phrase
    • Ap
    • Np
    • Structure
    • Information
    • Tense
    • X-bar
  • generalized phrase structure grammar
    • Phrase
    • Structure
    • X-bar
    • Theory
    • Constituents
    • Two
    • Subject
    • Information
    • Coordination
    • Argument
    • Order
    • Ap
  • head-driven phrase structure grammar
    • Phrase
    • Structure
    • X-bar
    • Theory
    • Constituents
    • Two
    • Subject
    • Information
    • Coordination
    • Argument
    • Order
    • Ap
  • nominative case
    • Subject
    • Np
    • Ap
    • Information
    • Given
    • Xp
    • Complement
    • Verb
    • Clause
    • Grammatical
    • Matrix
    • Order

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Small clause, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Small clause with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Small clause — Overview · splits 16 ⟂ 22
Small clause — Structural analyses · splits 33 ⟂ 5
Small clause — Identification tests · splits 34 ⟂ 4
Small clause — History · splits 35 ⟂ 3
Small clause — Contexts · splits 35 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Small clause

Nodes38
Edges37
Triples93
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.052632
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Small clause to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Overview & Structural analyses, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Small clause · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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