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AbstractEvery language has intransitive and transitive clauses, with the predicate slot filled by a verb, which refers to an action or state. Many languages have a third type, the copula clause whose predicate slot is filled by a copula verb, which does not refer to an action or state.
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AbstractEvery language has intransitive and transitive clauses, with the predicate slot filled by a verb, which refers to an action or state. Many languages have a third type, the copula clause whose predicate slot is filled by a copula verb, which does not refer to an action or state.
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Why verbless sentences in Standard Arabic are verbless
Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique, 2012AbstractThis article aims to account for why verbless sentences in Standard Arabic lack a copular verb. In contrast to previous accounts which attribute the absence of the copula to some defect of present tense, I claim that a verbless sentence does not take a copula because its nominais do not need structural Case.
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The Verbless Subjunctive in Russian
Scando-Slavica, 2013The Russian subjunctive particle by can be used in constructions that lack any finite verb form, including constructions involving infinitives, predicative adverbs or adjectives, and nouns. The properties of these constructions are compared, and a conclusion is made that verbless subjunctives share a common semantic component, namely a wish or ...
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Chapter 17. Verbless sentences in L’Étranger
2020What is aspectual meaning without a verb? Focusing on sentences in which the typical marker of aspectual meaning – the verb constellation – is absent, we use translations to explore the aspectual meaning pragmatically implicated by verbless sentences.
Bondarenko, Antonina, Celle, Agnès
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