On the Existence of Small Clauses in English
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Kim, Jong-Bok. 2013. On the Existence of Small clauses in English. English Language and Linguistics 19.1, 67-88. The existence of small clauses (NPPredicate sequence as a constituent) has been rather controversial: there are arguments for and against the postulation of the SC in the English grammar. In this paper, we discuss phenomena where the NP-Predicate sequence forms a constituent and accept the view that English employs the SC as the complement of verbs like imagine, in the absolute construction, the SAI (subject-auxiliary inversion) construction, and so forth.
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