Sentence examples for embedded verb from inspiring English sources

In 15a, the embedded clause is infinitival and the embedded verb is unaccusative, with the matrix CP occurring as the only phase in the sentence.

Thus was the gulf war II locution firmly embedded (verb, past participle) in Pentagonese.

The first verb freely carries TAM or voice markers, whereas the embedded verb disallows any TAM/NAV marking.

The clitic pronoun =mu attaching to the embedded verb may also attach to the deontic modal asi deon, as in (61).

The subject receives two thematic roles: the theme from the matrix verb and the undergoer (patient/instrument) from the embedded verb.

Control verbs, middle/tough predicates, adverbial verbs, and dynamic causative verbs select a reduced non-finite clause in which the subject is absent and the embedded verb does not bear any TAM marking.

In contrast to embedded verbs, matrix/first verbs are morphosyntactically restricted and defective.

In (18a c), the pronominal clitics =cu/=mu cannot be attached to the embedded verbs.

The embedded verbs freely bear irrealis/perfective marking, as in (9b d), and they may also be freely inflected for the actor voice (AV) and the NAV.

The embedded verbs remain tenseless13, albeit in their voice-inflected forms, namely, AV in (23a), UV in (23b), LA in (23c), and CA in (23d).

In this sense, the subject control verb is obligatory in subject control constructions because the arguments (PRO) of the embedded verbs are clearly controlled by the matrix subjects/agents.