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Small clause

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

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

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Small clause

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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

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

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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

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