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Verbless Sentences and Clause Structure

Linguistic Inquiry, 2010
Present tense verbless sentences involve a full clausal structure and not a reduced structure of the kind familiar under the term small clause. This article presents two new arguments in favor of this view. These arguments are based on differences between root verbless sentences and familiar instances of small clauses (rather than on similarities ...
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Verbless questions in oral monologic discourse

Linguistics Vanguard
Abstract Recent studies of written corpora have shown that the variation between the presence and the absence of the verb is a particularly sensitive issue for questions in English. Extending the analysis to oral monologic discourse, this paper explores the form and discourse function of verbless questions in a corpus of TED Talks.
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Verbless predicative structures in Persian paroemias

Voprosy Jazykoznanija, 2023
Many books and articles are devoted to Persian phraseology, but insuffi cient attention has been paid to the description and classification of verbless sentences. Among all sentential idioms, proverbs, sayings and other figurative statements are of great interest.
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Verbless predicative structures across Romance

Journal of Linguistics, 2015
This article develops an analysis of a verbless predicative structure attested throughout Romance: in this type of reduced clause the predicate linearly precedes the subject and is separated from it by a clear intonational break, while the missing verb is interpreted as a silent copula.
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Copula Clauses and Verbless Clauses

2009
Abstract Each language has intransitive and transitive clause types. There is frequently a further minor—but still important—type: copula clause. This has as predicate a copula verb, taking two core arguments, Copula Subject (CS) and Copula Complement (CC).The predicate in an intransitive or transitive clause has reference. A copula verb
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verbless, adj.

2023
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Verbless Clauses

2021
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Verbless Sentences in Spoken Italian

The book deals with the analysis of the expression of Grammatical Relations in spoken Italian verbless sentences. Unlike previous studies, this corpus-driven research aims at showing that it is possible to identify Grammatical-Relations in verbless sentences and that their encoding marks are non-canonical, as it occurs in verbal sentences which present
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Chapter 15. Verbless clauses

2011
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Verbless Clauses

2012
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