Comparative Concept: participle (str)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
participle (str)
| Typ | strategy |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | participle |
| Assoziiert |
Partonomie
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Definition
a deranked - relative clause - predicate. Example: in The car almost hit the roadrunner [eating a grasshopper], eating is a participle in the relative clause eating a grasshopper. (Section 19.2.1)