Sentence examples for predicate construction from inspiring English sources
In this paper, I discuss the syntax of a special secondary predicate construction in colloquial Mandarin Chinese.
Therefore, first, the classifier is not used as a counting unit in this numeral classifier language; and second, in addition to PRO, another form of the subject for a dependent clause is attested in secondary predicate construction in this language.
Several contributions offer historical insights, either reconstructing the sources of innovative nonverbal predicate constructions, or describing diachronic pathways by which constructions used for nonverbal predication spread to other functions in the grammar.
That is one lesson of Wilfrid Sellars's (1962) language Jumblese, which contains nonlogical predicate constructions but no nonlogical predicate expressions.
In general, for a given set of predicates, the construction of the abstract FSM amounts to the computation of a finite number of transitions, where for every transition, an existential quantifier elimination involving data variables from the EFSM is performed (Graf & Saidi 1997; Bensalem et al. 1998).
When analyzed as an eventuality-predicative V-DE construction, lei is predicated of the eventuality of his running.
Roosevelt Island's development was predicated on the construction of the long-delayed 63d Street subway tunnel.
When the class expansion occurred in the predicate position of the construction, reanalysis of the construction was subsequently activated.
In the case of 43a, an eventuality-predicative V-DE construction, the overt AP is predicated of an eventuality and the null element in the de-part is conferential with the eventuality of sleeping by Zhangsan.
In the case of 43b, an entity-predicative V-DE construction, the overt AP is predicated of a specific participant and the null element in the de-part refers to the entity of Zhangsan.
In the 1933 original Polish version of his monograph Tarski says that his method for constructing truth predicates cannot be applied to the construction of a truth predicate for LGTC.
