small clause

English

Noun

Examples
Robert painted the house blue. We consider Mary intelligent. Abby saw Patrick eat the cake. Eating too much cake makes me sick.

small clause (plural small clauses)

1. (grammar) A minimal predicate structure that possesses arguments and predicates but no tense: small clauses usually occur within the context of full clauses and may act as the direct object of the verb.

Translations

minimal predicate structures that possess arguments and predicates but no tense

• Icelandic: smásetning f

References

• Chomsky, Noam (1981) Lectures on Government and Binding, Dordrecht: Foris, →ISBN

Further reading

• small clause on Wikipedia.Wikipedia