Comparative Concept: pronominal argument complex predicate (cxn)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
pronominal argument complex predicate (cxn)
| Typ | construction |
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| Alias(se) | pronominal argument complex predicate |
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an argument complex predicate in which the argument is a pronoun rather than a common noun. Example: in English I'm losing it (meaning 'lose one's mind'), losing it is a pronominal argument complex predicate, containing the pronoun it. (Section 13.6)